Author: Bela Andrew Evans
Date: 03:16:10 04/15/98
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But looking at some of the games, I noticed that the games where Fritz 5 doesn't play up to its supposed strength are generally in openings that are fairly passive in general, like the black side of the closed Ruy Lopez. I think anyone will be able to show Fritz 5 getting crushed in closed or semi-closed positions it doesn't understand (or any other program for that matter). However, its lack of positional understanding in some positions in no way indicates that it is a weak program, as a few have charged (with somewhat emotional rhetoric stemming from disagreements about the fairness of how SSDF possibly gave favorable conditions to Fritz 5 in their testing). Small samples of 10, 20, 30, 40 games mean nothing. The only statistically relevant information comes from samples of hundreds of games, which only SSDF is in the position to provide. If you disagree with their data, look to the chess servers for confirmation of how strong your favorite programs are. Other than that, these reports of "CSTAL beats Fritz 3.5 - .5, blah, blah" are just a waste of time.
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