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Subject: Re: Fritz 9 engine

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 01:53:58 08/26/05

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On August 26, 2005 at 04:44:33, Shaley wrote:

>On August 26, 2005 at 04:22:01, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>From CSS Online:
>>
>>"Neue wissensbasierte und extrem spielstarke Schach-Engine: Fritz9". Hmm does
>>this mean: loses to Fruit, but it's strong against humans?!
>>
>>Jouni
>Hi Jouni,
>
>Looks like a lot of people over here are crazy about Fruit even w/o trying it
>over other engines. Lol! Someone used to post, it seems, that an 11 games'
>tourney cannot be a proof of the programme's strengths or weaknesses. Long-term
>testing should be done. No-one really knows how strong the new Fritz version
>really is. As is said, "let's wait and see", right? Friedel used to tell me the
>new engine is simply packed with chess knowledge. It is only some while after
>when we get a chance of feeling it that we can see what he can do in reality
>with Fruit, Zappa and other silicon monsters. I remember Frans Morsch said in an
>interview that from now on they would be working to make this engine play sound
>chess; not good chess from the point of view of beating machines or sound chess
>for beating humans. They will try to make Fritz play universally sound chess; it
>may compete very successfully against the machines as a result, he said. But
>their ambition is to make an engine that will play very good chess in general
>terms.
>Cheers,
>Alexander


than they should have not started to implement imperfect human knowledge about
chess into the engine. As a result they get an engine which plays for weak
humans sound chess but not from an objective point of view.

regards Joachim



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