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Subject: Re: Propaganda machine in full action - They are really admitting defeat

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 04:37:45 07/24/05

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On July 24, 2005 at 07:19:51, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On July 24, 2005 at 06:15:54, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>
>>
>>http://www.chesscafe.com/mig/mig.htm
>
>The strongest program (Shredder) is no longer sold by ChessBase --> time to put
>the propaganda machine in action.
>
>So, now, beating other programs is not important anymore and if Fritz gets
>clobbered by an 180k free program this is because it's 'smarter'! It's because
>it has so much 'knowledge'!
>
>The new Fritz is not or almost not stronger than the old one where you payed
>money for? No really, you can 'feel' it's playing more 'humanlike' instead!
>
>Also handy that the claim of being stronger against humans is almost impossible
>to objectively verify.
>
>The really sickening thing is that people will eat this ChessBase propaganda by
>the boatloads and report is as facts.
>
>--
>GCP

I fully agree - that is exactly what I am thinking, although I'm hoping that at
least experts on the field will disclose this babble as what it is - like you
did.

regards

Joachim



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