Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 16:44:25 07/24/05
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On July 24, 2005 at 19:42:19, Uri Blass wrote: >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. If it is not the number 1, and they can no longer sell the number 1, they have a problem. -- GCP
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