Author: martin fierz
Date: 08:56:08 01/13/04
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On January 13, 2004 at 10:59:52, Steve Maughan wrote: >Martin, > >>translated this means about this: "fritz and shredder played the best chess in >>this tournament (he is comparing against junior and brutus), and won their >>games against the outsiders most easily" - i don't really mind the first part >>of this sentence, but the second part is really hilarious given the shredder- >>jonny incident! > >I don't really want to start up the whole Graz scandle thread but in the Jonny >game Shredder was easily winning. The scandle occured due to a bug in Shredder. > So if SMK is commenting on the general quality of chess played by the programs >(which he seems to be) I don't really have a problem and I think he's correct. > >Regards, > >Steve hi steve, yes, from a chess point of view he was winning the game easily. but still - his statement sounds like fritz and shredder disposed of their respective weak opponents with ease, and that is really not the case. he got lucky in the game against jonny, and in SMKs place i would have just admitted that. in any case, for me shredder is a worthy champion regardless of what happened - it won the playoff against fritz running on a more powerful machine, and probably it was even winning in the drawn game too. BTW, it's not like i don't believe shredder 8 plays great chess - i just ordered it ;-) cheers martin
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