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Subject: Re: Does faster hardware really benefit Fritz?

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 13:14:29 04/14/98

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>could be anything.  IE what about the case you mentioned a few months
>ago with Crafty vs CSTal?  Crafty wins most games, you said.  And I'd
>bet that against Fritz, Crafty will score < 50% most of the time.  SO
>a case of A beats B, B beats C, C beats A simply shows there is no
>"transitivity" in chess.  :)
>

You are of course right. I am just making my jokes about the whole
situation. I don't take it serious.

>You need internet access.  Playing on ICC would be both fun and
>informative,

No - how many times before you understand: ONLINE in germany is only
possible if you work on a university and don't have to pay the
german-telephone-bill. Or if you work in a big company and you boss
pays.
Private people have IMO no chance to be ONLINE if they are normal
citizens.
Maybe if they are rich.
The german telephone-costs are very high.
Very often it is less expensive to do a call-back service and telephone
to US, and let a US-company call you back, and although the distance is
enormous, the costs are less.
German telephone companies exploit the customers.


>as we could get some good GM players to have a go at it to compare how
>it
>does against humans, with how other programs there do against the same
>humans..

You are obviously right.  But I cannot change the facts concerning the
costs here in germany.



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