Author: Mark Young
Date: 02:08:47 04/12/98
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On April 12, 1998 at 03:58:40, Mats Winther wrote: >First of all, I am a member of SSDF and I write articles >for them. So as you realize I don't have the intent to >question the SSDF list and the work of my colleagues >here in Sweden. The reason why I entered this discussion >was not so much the placement of Fritz5 on the list. >I am more interested in the style of the chess programs. >I have seen so much nice chess produced by the programs >the latest year so I'm simply worried for a deterioration. >I don't think Fritz5 will be able to produce so much >fine chess, notwithstanding its placement on the list. >The typical PC today is a P90. I simply happen to think >that chess enthusiasts should buy another program than >Fritz5 since the others play better quality chess on a P90. >But the best alternative is perhaps to buy Fritz5 and the >Hiarcs6 module, but maybe they don't realize this. I >think that the positional quality of computer chess >is immensely important to promote computer chess and >its development. See my "Re: Even some more shots..". > >So I am reluctant to play at ICC since I am not interested >and don't have the time. I don't want to prove that >Fritz5 is a shitty module, it has played some nice games >against me as well. My intent in this discussion is to >promote a cunning positional view of chess engines instead >of this list hysteria. Nevertheless, one cannot simply >dismiss Thorstens arguments. But perhaps the solution is >simple. Maybe Fritz5 is the leader of the 60+ Mb hash >league. It seems to be a very hardware dependent module. > >Regards > >Mats ------------------------------------------------------ The typical PC today is a P90. Where the hell are you from. Do people still live in caves where your at. The typical pc today is at least a P 166 on the low side, and more like a P 200mmx. If the typical pc today was a p90 there would be a lot of software stores closing down. Just go to any software store and look at 10 programs at random. You will find the most programs sold today take a P 166 to run well. Come on programmers write programs to make money. If a P90 was the typical pc today they would write programs that could run well on a P90. Why would they write programs that the avg. pc user can not use.
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