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Subject: Re: why, is fritz 9 so neglected here?

Author: pavel

Date: 21:45:26 01/26/06

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On January 27, 2006 at 00:31:43, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:

>The CCC does not seem to have  as much interest in talking about Fritz 9,
>compared to other chess engines (Rybka, fruit 2.2.1, and hiarcs ). I wonder why
>this is? Fritz 9 seems to be one of the few programs that consistently gives
>rybka some problems and is probably the number 2 or 3 engine on a single
>processor. It's pretty darn strong.
>
>
>Perhaps here are some reasons for people not talking so much about fritz
>
>1) people don't like fritz gui and often don't own it
>2) Fritz and chessbase have dominated for so long that people love to hate them
>and cheer against them
>3) fritz is a big corprate power, and the programers for rybka and fruit are
>brilliant individuals challenging the corporation
>
>or am i way off base?


Fritz 9 being a strong engine is not a sensation. We assume the next version to
be stronger than the previous version by atleast 50 (which has been the trend).
While Rybka is a sensation; it beats the crap outof everyone and it came out of
nowhere. If the next version of Fritz (10) is atleast 100 elo stronger than the
next version of Rybka, than we will see a lot of interest on fritz IMO.



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