Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 02:23:22 07/25/05
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On July 24, 2005 at 19:44:25, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 yeah but they are already tackling it. By the way I assume there will be a Chessbase-Version of Shredder 10. It does not make sense for SMK to waive that extra money. regards Joachim regards Joachim
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