Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 09:13:23 03/12/02
The Dutch magazine 'Computerschaak' has an interview with Frans Morsch. It contains some interesting quotes, which I've translated below. (hope this falls under fair use) (about the Fritz-Junior qualification match) 'I got the impression Junior had an advantage of 2 years over Fritz. As a professional programmer, this was terrible news to me. For a moment, I was really scared' 'Of course I analyzed the games. It became clear to me that, in positional setups, Junior's pawn sacrifices did not make any sense at all' 'When the match was finally equalized, it became clear to me that Junior was not a better program than Fritz is. That was very important to me. It meant more than qualifying itself.' (future) 'I predict a 3-5 against Kramnik. Fritz will not win a single game' 'I have been working on Fritz 8 for a while. It's being developed in parallel with Fritz 7 now. It will use a new BitBoard system and that offers a lot of options for future improvement. Because Fritz 7 has a lot of new knowledge, it has gotten a lot slower. Fritz 8 should be a lot faster again. I think there's about 50 elo points to gain there.' -- GCP
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