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Subject: Re: Anand vs. Fritz 5 1.5 - 0.5

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:47:33 06/21/98

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On June 21, 1998 at 16:07:08, Moritz Berger wrote:

>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


that sounds fine... I thought one of the two of you above quoted "fritz
the reigning world champion" which would obviously be wrong....

Bob



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