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Subject: Re: Fritz 9- Boom or Bust?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 17:49:05 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:)


I will buy Fritz 9 as soon as it comes out too, but not because it will be
stronger than the rest at classical chess, but only to see if it will replace
the Ugly Shredder-FEN in Chess960 with more universal or X-Fen Format :-)


PS: I really don't care much about the advancement of Classical Chess, since I
don't desire anything stronger than the FREE Toga II or SPIKE 1.0a.

Jorge




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