Author: Graham Banks
Date: 22:47:39 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? I think that many people own a Chessbase GUI and that is more widely used than any other GUI. I think that some people have had a gutsful of bugs that they feel haven't been addressed by Chessbase, therefore giving the impression that Chessbase doesn't care. Also there's the annoyance that whereas almost any engine can be run under a Chessbase GUI, the Chessbase engines can't run under other GUIs. Personally I've never experienced any problems with the Chessbase GUI and have always been a contented user (although I'd love to be able to run two separate Chessbase GUIs simultaneously on my dual Athlon!). There is also the romantic aspect of the "David's" versus the "Goliath" with engine authors such as Fabien and Vas among others setting a new higher standard of play. This certainly brings the aspect of revelling in the monopoly being challenged. As for Fritz 9, my impression is that it's a cut above any previous version of Fritz, both in strength and playing style. Definitely just behind Rybka, but I'd put it equal with Fruit 2.2.1 next (if you're excluding Deep Shredder). Graham.
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