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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