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Subject: Re: Interview with Frans Morsch

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:01:11 03/12/02

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On March 12, 2002 at 12:39:53, Otello Gnaramori wrote:

>On March 12, 2002 at 12:13:23, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>
>>'I predict a 3-5 against Kramnik. Fritz will not win a single
>>game'
>
>The above in unbelievable, since in the presentation of the match (few months
>ago...) Morsch exhibited a "deep faith" in his program to make some good results
>against Kramnik ... so was just a marketing hype ?

Six draws against the reigning world champion sounds like a 'good result'
to me, especially given the conditions.

I asked him the same thing in Leiden, and his answer was 'I have
no idea really', but his face didn't exactly look very optimistic.

>>'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.
>
>I sincerely don't find it slow...it's one of the faster program in circulation.

I assume he is talking about the performance relative to the previous
versions.

--
GCP



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