Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:01:25 06/21/98
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On June 21, 1998 at 15:54:47, Moritz Berger wrote: >On June 21, 1998 at 14:58:37, Bert Seifriz wrote: > >>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 > >What's wrong with that? Fritz is the current world champion by the Hongkong >match from 1995 where it finished ahead of Deep Thought II. It is not the >current ICCA world micro champion (commercial or amateur), but that's another >title. It's like boxing or wrestling, there's several titles to be had. Fritz >happens to be the heavy weight champion. what's wrong with that is that it is *not true*. Last time I looked, the world champion title was split between Kasparov and Karpov, depending on whether you want the FIDE title or the PCA title. Fritz is the reigning "World Computer Chess Champion". That's different from "world chess champion" by a huge margin. > >ChessBase are sponsoring the Frankfurt chess event (the strongest action chess >tournament in history, cat. XXII), so what's wrong with having their logo >displayed (among 10 or so other sponsors) on that site??? > > >>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. > > >Siemens spends a lot of money on that event and want something back. They >advertise their Primergy server on which Fritz runs. Why do you believe that a >sponsor wouldn't have any right to do so ??? > > >>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 > > >Instead of pretending to be in the AI business, they confess their credo 'speed >wins'. They haven't had exactly a bad track record with this philosophy ... > >Why do you think Fritz won the Ordix open????? Because it plays bad chess ???? > >Moritz
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