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Subject: Re:Fritz is only the tactical monster.

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 20:06:01 07/16/01

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On July 16, 2001 at 22:53:40, Mr.Yukio Rokujo wrote:

> I do not understand why they say that Fritz is the strongest program.It is only
>the tactical monster.Fritz is miserable in positional understanding.Naturally
>every program has positional defects,but Fritz(
> Junior,Hiarcs,Nimzo etc,also)is helpless.

They all have their strong and weak points. I don't like using Fritz for
analysis, for the reason you mention. But I recently viewed a computer-
computer game on ICC where Fritz found the nice Bf4! in this position:

[D] 6r1/4kp1p/5r2/1Nqpp1b1/Pp2b1B1/6P1/1P2QP1P/4RRK1 b - -

Time control was 0 minutes + 23 sec. increment. So, probably under a minute
for the search.

This may be "only tactics" but it is the kind of tactics that wins games.

--Jon




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