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Subject: Re: Fritz 7 v/s Fritz 8 games.........

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 22:53:34 11/23/02

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On November 23, 2002 at 19:27:28, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On November 23, 2002 at 11:31:45, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>To play new progra vs its predessor is only a waste of time.
>>Kurt
>
>
>Kurt:
>
>My impression is that some people here at CCC wish to determine for themselves
>whether or not the Fritz8 engine is identical to the Fritz7 engine.  Only
>testing will answer this question, since the Fritz programmers do not post
>bulletins here.  If a large number of games are played and one of the engines
>wins by a large margin, then it would be probable that the two engines are
>different.
>
>If Fritz8 is just a Fritz7 modified to make it do better against humans, then it
>may actually do worse against Fritz7 unmodified.  That may not be such a bad
>thing.
>
>It's all about marketing and capture of market share.
>
>: )
>
>Bob D.

It is hard to imagine that Fritz8 is identical with Fritz7. Of course - with the
exception of the many new features of the GUI - we can say that Fritz8 is a
modified Fritz7.
Kurt



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