Author: David H. McClain
Date: 09:19:34 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 Gian-Carlo, I think what we are starting to see here is that Chessbase feels threatened by free "amateur" (I hate using that phrase) programs and are trying to justify it in this article. The next thing we may see is modification of their GUI so that they cannot play there. I hope not because I would still buy my Chessbase based programs from time to time. Many of these "amateur" programs, among others, provide the enjoyment and variety of playing something else besides S9 or DS9 all day long. DHM
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