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Subject: Re: Fritz will never have to prove itself again

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:22:45 09/16/05

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On September 16, 2005 at 21:54:13, Christos Gitsis wrote:

>On September 16, 2005 at 14:17:03, Derek Paquette wrote:
>
>>If you think about it, fritz never has to produce a strong chess engine again.
>>They've openly stated they don't care about machine vs machine, only about man
>>vs machine.  So why not just keep improving the GUI, produce the same fritz
>>engine year in and year out and just say that it keeps getting stronger vs
>>humans since no one can prove it, including them.
>>
>>Its the perfect cost saving measure,
>>
>>any thoughts?
>
>I think that ChessBase will have problems only if other engines get much
>stronger than Fritz. In that case, many players will want to have the strongest
>engine for analysing games, and ChessBase will have to do something about that.
>But for the time being, they are ok.

If they throw a big enough bucket of money at the problem, it is likely that
ChessBase could get Fabien and/or Anthony to write them a ChessBase version.
Why not?  Probably the same goes for:
ChessAssistant
Lokasoft
UBISoft
ShredderChess
etc.



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