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Subject: Re: To Bob Hyatt, Fritz Hyperthreading modifications

Author: Charles Worthington

Date: 12:15:54 02/23/03

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On February 23, 2003 at 13:45:41, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 23, 2003 at 12:14:07, Charles Worthington wrote:
>
>>I have sent a request (essentially a bribe) for Chessbase to make the
>>modifications to the engine we discussed. That extra 20% would sure be nice. I
>>also got a dig in that Crafty was way ahead of them!! :-)
>
>Crafty is weaker than the commercial programs even if you give crafty 20% speed
>imoprovement so I do not think that it is correct to say that crafty was way
>ahead of them.
>
>I see no reason that chessbase has to be better than crafty in everything.
>Having a better playing program than Crafty is clearly enough.
>
>Uri


It wasn't meant literally. Of course Fritz is stronger. But it is ironic that
Bob made the modifications before chessbase did. It was a compliment to Bob than
to Crafty.

Charles



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