Author: Jonathan Parle
Date: 16:48:28 01/19/02
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On January 19, 2002 at 06:56:00, Albert Silver wrote: >On January 19, 2002 at 01:15:56, Jonathan Parle wrote: > >>On January 18, 2002 at 19:28:38, Albert Silver wrote: >>> >>>"Fritz7 has more knowledge than Hiarcs 7, which is a number of years old. In >>>fact it has more chess knowledge than any other top program available today." >>> >> >>Well, rightly or wrongly, it certainly does have more chess knowledge than >>previous incarnations, especially Fritz 5 and earlier. It would WANT to have >>gained more knowledge LOL. I remember I could often hold down Fritz 5 to a >>fairly even endgame (and I am a very weak player). I just took David Levy's >>advice and did nothing. And it would do nothing in return. Not so with Fritz 7 >>and even Fritz 6. It seems at last that Frans is starting to program the engine >>in a similar vein to his dedicated programs, which imo show exceedingly good >>knowledge and positional play. > >I agree, and by no means wish to imply that Fritz 7 is poor in any way, but he >didn't say it had more chess knowledge than all previous Fritz versions, he said >it had more chess knowledge than "any other top chess program available today". >That means he is affirming (and I don't see how) that it has more chess >knowledge than: > >Shredder 6 >Junior 7 >Tiger 14 >Rebel Century 4 >Etc. > > Albert True, I too would like to know how he came up with that one. How would he be able to quantify such a thing? And in any case, despite the significant improvements in Fritz, when I feel like playing a fun game of chess it is still not my engine of choice.
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