Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 06:52:24 04/10/98
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When Fritz5 topped the SSDF it was a great surprise to many.It was however a particularly unpleasant surprise to Mr Ossi weiner who is a business rival of ChessbaseGmBH and to Thorsten Czzubb, a man of exceptionally strong likes and dislikes, who was extremely unhappy that fritz5 had beaten all his favourites.There were others who were unhappy, on priciple,rather than any animosity towards Fritz5 because they wanted the first place to go to a psitionally strong and intelligent programme such as Rebel9/hiarcs6/MCP7 rather than a an ''unintelligent but tactically fast programme like Fritz5.''the above 2 individuals in particular have therefore created a controversy and raised the following charges:- 1)Fritz5(SSDF)is a different stronger version than Fritz5(commercial 2)fritz5(SSDF)uses specially tuned powerbooks containing killer lines against its opponents.3)SSDF have been provided with a special fritz5 autoplayer which can detect which computer opponent it is playing against and thus select the appropriate killer lines.4)This autoplayer can disable its opponents learning capability as well its ability to play the best moves.5)most of fritz5 points have been gained at the expense of P90 rather than P200 opponents.5)fritz5 has been provided with 64-128Mb of ram as opposed to its opponents 16Mb.6)SSDF games have not been reproducible.7)no other tester has been able to come up with comparable results, especially with manual testing 8)SSDf have been influenced by gifts of RAM from cheesbase to produce these results.9)fritz5 even if it wins plays ugly and stupid moves therefore it should not be considered strong. 10)dr john nunn has been asked to specially create positions that would favour fritz5. i think almost all these charges are totally rubbish. rajen gupta
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