Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 08:37:52 04/10/98
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On April 10, 1998 at 09:52:24, Rajen Gupta wrote: >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. All. Enrique >rajen gupta
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