Author: Mark Young
Date: 15:20:27 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 18:02:42, Roy Eassa wrote: >Many people posting on ICC said that they will now avoid buying Fritz because of >the results so far. I think that's wrong. Fritz is not the issue. Kramnik's >strength and understanding of how to play a computer (any computer) is the >issue. > >If you want to buy any chess program, Fritz is a good one (as are Tiger, >ChessMaster, Junior, Shredder, Hiarcs, Rebel, and others)! If instead you want >to "punish" something because the computer has fallen behind in this match, >don't take it all out on the program that happens to be involved -- others would >surely suffer similar results. > >Kramnik's winning technique thus far is not Fritz-unique, IMHO. Fritz is playing well for the most part. The program has some flaws that can be corrected with the next update, but the results are what most here expected with this type of match conditions. GM Kramnik is a great player and world champion, people must rember this. He shut out GM Kasparov, and will most likely shut out Deep Fritz.
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