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Subject: Re: The Fritz5 discussion

Author: Moritz Berger

Date: 09:10:55 04/09/98

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On April 09, 1998 at 10:54:35, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi Mats:
>You are absolutely right. Fritz vis a vis computers has nothing to do
>with Fritz vis a vis humans. And this point to one of the distortion of
>the industry: ratings as SSDF are considered the last, authoritative
>word, as if programs were made to play programs. What's the sense of
>that? We, not programs, are whoy purchase programs. I am a 2100 elo
>player and regularly at least I draw againts Fritz 5 precisely on the
>ground of his silly positional play and if I lose is because of a silly
>tactical mistake, so silly things always happnes with fritz 5. To be
>fair I believe F5 is better than F4 in this aspect, and besides has a
>lot of good points in the non-engine side of the program, but in terms
>of pleasure based on the game in itself, I rate a lot higher Mchess any
>version, Hiarcs and CSTAL.

Fernando: Mats' copy of Fritz makes move that *NOBODY* can reproduce.
Hang on for my detailed analysis on the games he posted, I promise (from
what I see at the moment on my 2nd machine) some VERY EXCITING computer
chess games (Hiarcs vs. Fritz) which are *no way* boring or silly.

Moritz



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