Author: stuart taylor
Date: 16:33:08 12/10/02
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On December 10, 2002 at 14:41:08, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 10, 2002 at 14:30:03, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On December 10, 2002 at 13:28:34, stuart taylor wrote: >> >>>On December 10, 2002 at 09:00:36, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>> >>>>On December 10, 2002 at 08:07:14, SedatCambaz wrote: >>>> >>>>Can be found at: >>>> >>>>http://www.geocities.com/sedatchess/secondrating.html >>> >>>Fritz 8's rate of improvement at longer times, compared to shorter times on that >>>program, is weaker than that of DF.7. >>>Because in this blitz rating list, the difference between DF 7 and Fr.8 is much >>>larger than differences between the two on rating lists at tournament timings. >>>So in that repect, Fritz 8 seems to have been a DOWNgrade of DF.7! >>>S.Taylor >> >> >>If you consider only Comp vs comp result I agree with you, but considering Comp >>vs Human, Fritz 8 is a tremendous improvement over DF 7. >> >>Pichard. > >Fritz proved that it has the ability to hypnotize Kramnik and convince him to do >tactical mistakes. > >For some reason I am not impressed by this "improvement". > >I also doubt if many humans are going to buy fritz8 in order to play against it >so results against humans are simply unimportant. > >results again humans may be important in other games like go when computers do >not beat almost everybody. > >Uri I think that being good against humans means that when it is also good at comp vs. comp, it is much more qualitative too, and has much greater potential, and is also more educational and worthy of study. S.Taylor
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