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Subject: Re: This only needs a two letter response. B. S. (NT) Not good enough

Author: Ron Langeveld

Date: 08:34:21 07/23/01

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On July 22, 2001 at 09:48:19, Mark Young wrote:

>On July 22, 2001 at 09:37:25, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>
>>On July 22, 2001 at 08:57:56, Drazen Marovic wrote:
>>
>>>Not Fritz 7!, Not Deep Fritz!, but Deep Fritz Grandmaster 1.0!!  This should be
>>>the name of the next version of Fritz.  Just to take a slap at all of the non
>>>believers in fritz's grandmaster strength.  Mogens you said you didn't believe
>>>in psychics, but you would believe in amazing luck time and time again, isn't it
>>>amazing how yet again a non GM strength program could hold a 2600+ GM to an even
>>>score- just luck i'm sure.....
>>
>>I don't believe in amazing luck. I believe in incentive and preparation derived
>>from the challenge of competition. Since human players don't consider computer
>>programs as competition, but as an occasional tournament curiosity and perhaps
>>as an analysis tool, there are only minor incentives.
>>
>>This match was supposed to be a competition, but it wasn't. A preseason friendly
>>you might say. So all in all the usual reasons are still valid and this match
>>doesn't sway anything IMO. Of course you can disagree all you like, consult
>>psychics and read tea leaves. It won't help.
>>
>>Mogens.

Way to go Mark!
Mogens actually has a good point here and you can't even come up with a
counterargumentation. I can only feel sorry for people who will defend their new
toy at all costs. If I would want to justify spending my monthly allowance on
any toy, it wouldn' be in any newsgroup.



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