Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 02:45:51 07/25/05
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On July 24, 2005 at 16:43:31, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>On July 24, 2005 at 12:05:23, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>But It's good to see that people here don't automatically give reverence to a
>>program like Fritz, only because it is famous, just like they didn't give much
>>to CSTal by Wittington (Or am I wrong? I wasn't a member during the beginning of
>>that period).
>
>CSTal might not have been the strongest program, it *is* true that it had an
>uncompromising attacking style and was the most attacking program of it's time.
>Regardless of strenght, such a character trait can IMHO be a very worthwhile
>feature of a program.
CSTAL had in my view the personality of its programmer. Strong attacks, creative
ideas, but not always sticking to facts. :-)
Torstein
>
>Funnily enough, the article goes out to say that Fritz doesn't have any specific
>style ("pure"), but just does whatever is the strongest. The contradiction with
>the statements earlier is another nice example of propaganda instead of facts.
>
>--
>GCP
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