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

Author: Zheng Zhixian

Date: 03:03:08 09/17/05

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On September 16, 2005 at 14:30:48, Uri Blass 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?
>
>It is possible to prove that an engine get stronger against humans but you need
>to pay strong GM's a lot of money to convince them to play a game against Fritz
>so Fritz can get one game every day.

And as hard as that is to do, it still doesn't provide evidence that Fritz is
better than other chess engines against humans. I'm not sure if they have
claimed that, but the inference is there.

To do that, chessbase has to pay Humans to play with their competitors products
under the same condition. :)




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