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Subject: Re: Fritz 9- Boom or Bust?

Author: Harvey Williamson

Date: 23:40:24 09/02/05

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On September 01, 2005 at 21:25:48, Derek Paquette wrote:

>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:)
>
>There is no evidence for this however, HiarcsX (hiarcs9) are argueable the
>strongest positional programs and hiarcs couldn't even win a single game vs
>Bareev who didn't have an army of grandmasters plotting his moves ahead of time
>for him.
>
>It couldn't come up with the win in my opinion because it simply was not strong
>enough.

Don't foreget Hiarcs 8 Bareev was only playing on a P4 2.0 ghz
>
>6 games is a lot of games to get atleast ONE win



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