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

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 07:04:39 07/24/05

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On July 24, 2005 at 08:58:53, Henrik Dinesen 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
>
>Wrong. Chessbase still sells Shredder.
>
>--> time to put
>>the propaganda machine in action.
>
>The most stupid kind of propaganda you can find in todays article:
>http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2531
>Something conducted by "somebody" who doesn't have a clue about computerchess
>and testconditions, not mention who knows very little about the programs he has
>matchted!
>>
>>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.
>>
>Again, I think the above link beats anything I've seen so far.
>
>>--
>>GCP

and I bet DeepShredder will fare even worse against the mighty Deep Fritz 8.

regards Joachim



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