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Subject: Re: some questions about chess programs and money

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:01:34 04/09/03

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On April 09, 2003 at 07:49:04, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 09, 2003 at 07:16:17, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On April 08, 2003 at 19:57:47, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On April 08, 2003 at 19:43:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 08, 2003 at 02:32:48, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Most people still kick on fritz because of its high node counts but they are not
>>>>aware that other programs outsearch it bigtime, where it is clear that their
>>>>marketing slogan was 'learning by search' is completely outdated because of
>>>>that.
>>>
>>>No
>>>
>>>In this case they could stop buy Fritz because Fritz searched more nodes per
>>>second in the past.
>>>
>>>ruffian is a fast searcher relative to Fritz.
>>>
>>>You always believed in evaluation and not in search.
>>>I wonder what happened to your opinion.
>>
>>DIEP focuses upon evaluation, nothing is changed there. An extra ply doesn't
>>matter as much as a better eval. Always said that. And guessing that my opinion
>>would change there is a complete nonsense thing of course.
>>
>>Yet it is clear that when diep releasedate 1 august 2003 with a 10 ply search
>>plays against diep release date 1 august 2003 with a 14 ply search, that the
>>latter makes a bigger chance.
>>
>>In short, what happened to chessbase slogan: Learn through search?
>
>How many customers buy Fritz because of this slogan?
>I believe that most of the customers even do not know of this slogan.
>
>I think that customers buy Fritz because they considered it to be the best
>program or one of the best and not because of search.
>
>The fact that Fritz leads the ssdf most of the time is a better reason for them
>to buy it.
>
>You are the one who claim that Ruffian is 100 elo better than Fritz because of
>search and not because of evaluation.
>
>I believe that you are wrong.

you misread me as always. what an idiot. i said ruffian is IMHO 100 points
better when both play under equal conditions (both a random book without
learning). I noted that many engines outsearches fritz which makes their
propaganda "fritz learns through search", which 'only' each 2 months around
30000 people could read in the CSS magazine, completely useless propaganda.

Somehow your weird mind combines that, but the 2 statements are independant from
each other. Get a course english!

>
>Mike Byrne does tournament at 120/40 with the same book ponder on
>and I remeber that Ruffian did not win his tournament(I think that Junior7 won
>it)
>
>I see no proof that Ruffian is better than Fritz8 based on 120/40 games.
>
>He is going to do another tournament 120/40 (programs do not use their opening
>book and he is using the same opening book for all programs).
>
>In this case Fritz8 is participating.
>
>Uri



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