Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 05:15:37 07/24/05
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On July 24, 2005 at 07:37:45, Joachim Rang wrote:
>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
[D]r1b2rk1/p4p1p/2p1pRn1/2Npq3/1P1N4/2P2Q2/P5PP/R5K1 b - - 0 20
I should be happy if Fritz 9 would evaluate this position as
almost a winning one for White due to the great positional advantage.
And if Fritz would be able to assess similar positions correctly,
I don't bother provided Fritz 9 is not the number one vs other engines.
Kurt
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