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Subject: Re: What's The Weakest of the Top Programs?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:21:46 01/03/02

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On January 03, 2002 at 11:01:23, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On January 02, 2002 at 11:12:25, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On January 02, 2002 at 11:05:02, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On January 01, 2002 at 15:05:37, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 01, 2002 at 13:33:16, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 31, 2001 at 05:29:55, Harald Faber wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On December 30, 2001 at 21:22:31, Will Bundy wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I know CM8000 is very , very strong yet it is not near the top programs, it
>>>>>>>still seems absurd to view it as weakest.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I'd say Nimzo 8.
>>>>>
>>>>>Fritz if you remove its book it's like 2000 at most.
>>>>
>>>>If you do not assume special preperation of the 2000 player that is based on
>>>>having the exact version of Fritz then you are wrong.
>>>
>>>But this is what i mean. Fritz is that bad that if you remove its book
>>>that a random 2000 player will beat it. In fact why do i know this?
>>>
>>>Jos Nooijen, look him up in the rating list. Said fritz was unbeatable.
>>>Said this for years.
>>>
>>>Then  he needed to install some major other software. He removed
>>>the huge openingsbook from harddisk to save up space.
>>>
>>>Now he finds fritz real bad!
>>>
>>>he beats it!!
>>
>>You cannot learn about Fritz's rating with no book from games against one
>>player.
>>
>>It is possible that his style is good exactly against Fritz's weaknesses when
>>another player is going to find Fritz strong without book.
>>
>>Uri
>
>No one is!
>
>You with 1100 rating of course i have no idea about what you
>think from it, but everything looks of course world champion if
>you play it!

You can think what you want.
I am not continue to argue here.

Uri



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