Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 15:34:41 09/11/98
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On September 11, 1998 at 17:54:57, Thorsten Czub wrote: Hi Thorsten, >I have recognized the statements of mark and others too, they had an offensive >tone within. Not said straight, but between the lines. >What disapoints me enough is that meanwhile I did post computerchess data, they >do not refer in ANY way to my data. In opposite they throw with indifferent and >offending statements. If they have evidence that THEIR fritz5-power.ctg plays >different, why not referring to this. >I mean, when I am cheating (as mark implies, or enrique, or whoever), how do i >do it ? I have not read from their post that they accuse you of cheating. I wouldn't either. Concerning the Fritz powerbook: 1. It definitely *has* weak lines in it. I have seen one from time to time as well. Probably this comes from having too many unchecked lines from below strong GM level in it. 2. With strong learning on, if you play some blitz games or games against different or weak players, the narrow learning sometimes specializes in a funny way, resulting in unrealistic weights for some moves which are no good any longer for serious play. 3. To be sure that no such previous kind of bad-tuning by random play happens, I clean the evaluations before serious tournaments. Just to be sure I get the standard book lines and learning only from the serious tournament games played then. I don't know in which state your powerbook was when beginning the tournament. 4. I said I get these funny openings in the powerbook as well. But what perhaps looks strange to some here, is *how* *much* bad luck in finding such openings Fritz5 had so far. I do not evaluate this in any way, not knowing at all how it happened. I have not rechecked all of the games and only replayed some that where of interest to me, but I remember the last one was not the first bad Fritz opening choice in this tournament. 5. My technical proposal is just to recheck what I said above in 2. and 3. If none of that is the reason for the bad opening choices, well then its no drama either. Fritz then just made bad powerbook choices, resulting in some bad middlegames, on a processor on which it is relatively slow compared to other programs anyway. No big deal... There are enough interesting programs and games in your tournament, so I for one won't stare at the Fritz5 outcome all the time. I know how strong Fritz5 is anyway and need no such tournament to find that out. And I can't replay the manual games by autoplayer because I use two 200MMX machines, leading to other play... So I propose to anyone to just get the best of what you do, not caring too much about how Fritz5 does exactly in *this* tournament. The tournament can't and shouldn't carry the weight of proving how bad or good Fritz5 really may be. I guess it's time to relax, have fun in looking at the most interesting games and wait for the outcome of the tournament. If Crafty or CSTal win, why not? Both are nice and interesting programs... Dirk >I can replay the games at any time with my original fritz5.03 >(CB-magazin-update) and the original power.ctg from the power-books. >Why is it my fault that these lines are in the book. And that the machine plays >it, when I let them play manually. I am prepared for accusations of cheating. >Whenever i started games with fritz, i had a witness in my home who saw live me >operating the 2 machines and input the moves. So when they don't believe that >these games happened ONE time and live, i can name the witness. He is known to >Dirk Frickenschmidt. And maybe also to others. I thought somebody would accuse >me cheating. So i was prepared. >Also i can repeat/replay the games by any time. You can reproduce them. >What is their problem ?!? > >That fritz lost ? If this makes the rest of the world cheaters, than many people >cheat, because fritz played in paris the same quality, although matthias feist, >frans morsch and frederic friedel were there and operated in a team ! If losing >fritz=cheated operation, than as a result frederic and frans and matthias have >cheated in paris too. :-)
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