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Subject: Re: Fritz 9 engine

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 01:55:55 08/26/05

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On August 26, 2005 at 04:52:17, Shaley wrote:

>On August 26, 2005 at 04:41:22, Uri Blass 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
>>
>>The secret is that humans are not good chess players so everything seems strong
>>against them.
>>
>>Uri
>Well, Uri, I can only half-agree with you here. Right, humans still cannot take
>quick and right decisions in OTB chess, but in reality machines have little
>chance against strong humans in correspondence chess, if they are not backed by
>really skilful advancers. In reality it's machines that play bad chess against
>top advancers like ICCF world ex-champions Michael Umansky or Grigory Sanakoev,
>to name a few.
>All the best,
>Alexander


they don't play against Umansy or Sanakoev they play against them equipped with
strong computer programs. Humans would be defeated in any CC-Game if they were
not allowed to use computers themselve.

The combo human-comp will always be very, very strong no doubt about that.

regards Joachim



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