Author: George Speight
Date: 16:30:41 09/01/05
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On September 01, 2005 at 19:17:56, Tony Nichols wrote: >Hello George, > I am not a programmer, but I definitley believe there is a difference between >beating other programs and beating human players. All chess engines are strong >in tactics. Many GM games are lost just because a player missed a tactic. If you >design your program to value tactical positions it would probably do better >against humans. However, Against other programs this would not be the best way >to win. Other programs would very often handle the tactics well and then what >have you got? It's funny to hear the statement from chessbase that their >concentrating on beating human GM's. This might have been an interesting goal 10 >years ago. Today amatuer programs are beating GM's, So what is chessbase really >saying? They also claim that their trying to make Fritz more of an instructive >tool. I am all for this, But they don't really say how. >Regards >Tony > >P.S. I of course will buy Fritz 9 as soon as it comes out:) Hi, Tony Unfortunately, i have only questions- no answers. George
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