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Subject: Re: Psychiatrist Matches wits with Fritz? Take a Look

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 10:34:36 10/05/03

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On October 04, 2003 at 19:23:09, Art Patterson wrote:

>I was at Borders bookstore today and noticed a rather Large Hardback book titled
>..A Psychiatrist matches wits with fritz, what's amazing is that this Doc is not
>even a Professional and claims to consistently beat fritz in under 40 moves, I'm
>not sure how to take this book, as it seems impossible, I can believe amateurs
>can defeat fritz occasionaly but, consistently is hard to believe, what do
>others think?
>
>
>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=316

This book is most probably already outdated.

[D] r1bqr3/pp5Q/2ppkp2/2bNp3/2PnP3/3P4/PP4P1/R1B1K2R b KQ - 0 1

In this position (from the example game) a modern top program will discard
1...Re7 immediately and settle for 1...Rh8 for example.

Michael





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