Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 05:23:37 11/05/02
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On November 05, 2002 at 07:07:29, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On November 05, 2002 at 04:48:35, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>niggemann chess seems to imply that it is a single processor version:i would be >>quite willing to bet that this f8 is nothing more than a single processor df7. >>perhaps a tiny bit different but not much stronger. i doubt whether 3 months is >>sufficient to actually improve the strength significantly. quite sure that >>chessbase is trying to cash in on the krmanik match and reach out to the masses >>with "f8" and the "bahrain engine" >> >>rajen > >Another thing to consider is that Fritz 8 could Not necessarily be stronger than >DF7 against other programs, simply because it was modified to play great Anti >Human Chess. > >Pichard. > > i doubt very much that any commercial computer chess programme would ever be released with a default setting that is anything other than optimised to play against other computers because that is how 99.99% of the testing is done. the cry "but it is stronger against humans" just wont wash because that would be impossible to prove; and also i am quite certain that even old progs such as for example genius 3/4 on current hardware would be a match for probably anyone other than a gm; on the other hand proving relative strength against other progs is much easier. quite likely though that there maybe an anti human setting. rajen rajen
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