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Subject: Re: FRITZ5 SIDE OF STORY

Author: Mark Young

Date: 19:21:07 04/11/98

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On April 11, 1998 at 20:39:47, SEAN EVANS wrote:

>I have heard lots of people's opinions on Fritz 5 but what does
>Chessbase have to say???
>
>Have they issued any statements???
>
>What has the SSDF stated in regard to Fritz 5???
>
>Best regards,
>
>Sean

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Chessbase has put a statement about fritz 5 on there web page. Here it
is.


Please note: There have been some hysterical attacks from a competitor
who apparently has grave problems with the excellent Fritz5 results that
are being reported from all over the world. Do not be misled. The Fritz
engine that played in Sweden and in the Selective Search tests is
exactly the same as the one you get in the Fritz5 box. There is no
"secret formula-1 Fritz" which we are holding back from our customers
(why on earth would we ship an inferior version?). All games played in
Sweden can easily be reproduced using a standard, off-the-shelf Fritz5.
And the positions of the Nunn Test were selected by Dr John Nunn without
any pre-testing with a computer. It is insidious to suggest that he was
working in collusion with ChessBase and somehow chose positions that
favoured Fritz. How can you do that in a wide variety of main-line
openings? No, Fritz is simply very, very strong. Our competition is just
going to have to accept that.


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