Author: Bert Seifriz
Date: 11:58:37 06/21/98
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On June 21, 1998 at 14:29:44, Bert Seifriz wrote: >On June 20, 1998 at 15:48:02, Moritz Berger wrote: > >>Apparently (there's no result on the official web site yet) Fritz lost the 1st >>game with white against Anand. The 2nd game was drawn. Time control was game/25. >> >>Anand was completely in charge of the board all the time, Fritz had no change >>whatsoever. The draw in the 2nd game has to be considered a good result for >>Fritz. >> >>For more details see >>http://194.109.72.230/chessclassic/ >> >>Moritz > >But the official page you mention here (situated in Holland) had >already stated before the match >that Fritz 5 was the reigning world champion. On the same >page was the official logo of Chessbase. >Bert/gambitsoft.com Just found another interesting detail around that match. Siemens writes in German: Das Geheimnis guter Schachprogramme liegt nicht – wie man vermuten könnte – in der künstlichen Intelligenz, sondern vielmehr in der leistungstarken Hardware. Die Spielstärke von Fritz wird durch drei Faktoren wesentlich bestimmt: Prozessorleistung, Hauptspeicher und Festplatte... which means in short, that the secret of a good chess program is not artificial intelligence, but strong hardware, namely a good processor, much memory and a fast harddisk. This is no joke, folks! And the Siemens page is heavily relying on Chessbase information, maybe it was written by ChessBase anyway. (I would not dare to write this openly in this forum even if I would believe it!!) Bert / gambitsoft.com
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