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Subject: Re: some questions about chess programs and money

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:09:02 04/09/03

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On April 09, 2003 at 08:01:34, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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marketing slogan was 'learning by search' is completely outdated because of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).

These are exactly the conditions that mike Byrne use.

 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.

I guess that most of the buyers of Fritz do not read the
CSS magazine.

Uri



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