Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:20:21 07/15/02
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On July 15, 2002 at 08:40:48, Mig Greengard wrote:
>Sorry, where are the lies? I keep reading and don't see any mention of what part
>of what I said is untrue. You seem to be taking what I wrote as an excuse for
>Quest not winning, when that has nothing to do with it. My point was that they
>can't/won't play a program under the name of Fritz because they have the Bahrain
>match coming up and Fritz can't afford to have its reputation damaged. By "best
>Fritz" I mean the one that is going to face Kramnik.
Best to ask Morsch really. I seem to recall some while ago that Morsch said he
had no idea on what was being done with Fritz 7 lately as he was working on
Fritz 8 already which had some significant differences.
Albert
>
>I'm not even sure they are contractually allowed to play "Fritz" in important
>events, which would explain why they changed the name to Quest post-facto in the
>Dutch event you refer to. Regardless, they would be foolish to do so when the
>big money is in Bahrain. Relative to that they had nothing to gain in
>Maastricht. To avoid any risk at all they would likely make sure that the Quest
>in Maastricht had significant differences from the version Kramnik will play,
>hence "not the best Fritz." Who knows, maybe it's stronger.
>
>Remind me not to hire you for marketing, Gian-Carlo! ChessBase programs/devices
>took the first four positions, they hardly need marketing help. And if you
>actually read the rest of my article you'd quite clearly see I don't do
>marketing for ChessBase...
>
>Saludos, Mig
>
>
>On July 15, 2002 at 07:36:24, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>
>>On July 15, 2002 at 06:06:05, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>Quote:
>>>
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>Fourth place was Quest, which is an experimental version of Fritz playing
>>>incognito. ChessBase can't play their best Fritz because it's being held in a
>>>contractual cage awaiting its October match with Kramnik in Bahrain.
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>Can't play their best Fritz? Lies, lies, and marketing!
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>Marketing of course - they are free to interprete what Quest is, depending on
>>the outcome of the tournament. I think, considering the Kramnik event, that is
>>quite understandable behaviour of a commercial company. Another example is the
>>95 WMCCC in Paderborn. Fritz won the former WCCC in Honkong and therefore Quest
>>was playing in Paderborn.
>>One time it happended in the opposite direction. After the dutch open 01 where
>>the official name was Fritz, they renamed it on their side into Quest, after
>>Fritz became third. But that could be an oversight from the editor :-)
>>
>>Gerd
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