Author: Moritz Berger
Date: 13:07:08 06/21/98
Go up one level in this thread
On June 21, 1998 at 16:01:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. ... sloppy language on my part. Here's the exact quote from http://194.109.72.230/chessclassic/ Fritz, a product of the Hamburg software company ChessBase, is the reigning World Champion in computer chess, will take on Vishy Anand in a rapid chess match running on a Siemens Nixdorf Primergy 460-Server (June 20, 8 p.m.). It says *World Champion in computer chess*. Moritz
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.