Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 09:42:23 03/12/02
Go up one level in this thread
On March 12, 2002 at 12:13:23, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 I don't get it, I thought that Kramnik already have the program that will compete against him, or will it be this new Fritz 8 that Frans is working on for a while.
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.