Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 04:09:36 01/10/06
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One shouldnt buy Fritz 9 as a chessplayer because testers have certain problems in engine vs engine autoplaying? Give me break! Fritz 9 wasnt designed for testers who dont play chess at all but it was created to support the chess of thousands of chessplayers. And therefore it sells. To even spend more than a second on alternatives like Fritz 9 with its all-inclusive attachements and "programs" who dont have books, GUI, no nothing and who cost only 15 € less than Fritz 9 is incredible in such an expert forum. Finally I want to repeat that Fritz 9 has left the scene of engine vs engine ballyhoo. Now you just cant compare it with new entries like Hiarcs 10. Fritz 9 is for human chessplayers and not testers or operators who are playing with their own program on chess servers. Nothing against such a hobby. But to simply continue business as usual although Fritz 9 is no longer designed for such passtimes, this is just odd. Of course that ends in a double bind. Look here. Rybka shall, as Vasik has said, be the future help for the advanced and every chessplayer for his own chess, NOT for engine vs engine automatisms. But actually Vasik is happy if he sees all the results from such engine matches. Self-understood, because he wont get experienced chessplayers for free who tell him what to do in Rybka. All this he does as an IM all by himself. But in future he wont listen to any engine tournament result because he wants to enter the market for human chessplayers. I will certainly be interested in buying Rybka if Vas could succeed. But I dont pay for being a beta tester, no way.
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