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Subject: Re: Fritz losing on time / Claim on ChessBase site

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 08:02:01 07/10/04

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On July 10, 2004 at 05:36:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>>Fritz greatly reduced its chances for overall victory by losing on time
>>against Falcon in round three. This was due not to faulty algorithms, but by
>>the computer hanging, as we have learnt from members of the Fritz team.
>
>This sounds like complete nonsense to me.

A hanging computer is easier to sell than a bug in the software.

(If they would have been selling computers they would have sworn it was a bug in
the software. :)

Tony

>
>Why did the Fritz team not check whether the computer was still running,
>they are allowed to do so (after asking the tournament director).
>
>Moreover, a hang should be obvious from the clocks on the remote system
>no longer running.
>
>--
>GCP



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