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Subject: Re: Quest

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:03:38 08/16/01

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On August 16, 2001 at 05:13:44, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On August 15, 2001 at 15:24:48, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On August 15, 2001 at 13:25:02, Mark Loftus wrote:
>>
>>>On August 14, 2001 at 01:41:27, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>This is very clever name for Fritz! If it wins, so it's Fritz7 - if it does
>>>>bad, it's experimental version nothing in common with Fritz7...
>>>>
>>>>Jouni
>>>
>>>Quest is the name commonly used in tournaments for experimental versions of
>>>Fritz, and this has been done for over 10 years, no big deal. There are those
>>>who don't like the program who may read more into that.
>>>
>>
>>
>>Hey, I remember Fritz 1.0 being sold in the USA as KnightStalker.  I actually
>>bought it (and still have it, I think).
>>
>>So, Fritz, Quest, and KnightStalker are all the same program.  Hmmm.
>
>I played against KnightStalker several years ago in a friend's computer. I think
>it was a 386. Anyway it was extremely weak, I defeated it very easily. Who could
>say that in such a short time hardware and software improvements would be enough
>to play against the world champion.
>José.

playing with the worldchampion has and never had anything to do
with program strength, but more with money-strength.

Wasn't Genius already playing blitz against Kasparov in 1988?





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