Author: Uri Blass
Date: 16:42:19 07/24/05
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On July 24, 2005 at 19:14:34, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On July 24, 2005 at 19:00:14, Uri Blass 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 think that you missed the following paragraph when they claim that Fritz does >>well against other programs and Methias Feist was sure that more knowledge would >>also make it strong against other programs: > >I didn't miss that paragraph, and it does nothing to contradict the point I >made. > >-- >GCP The point that you made is that it is an excuse to justify bad results against other programs(it was also my impression when I started to read) but if Fritz9 does well against other programs then there are no bad results against other programs that chessbase need to justify. Uri
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