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

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 04:24:54 01/27/06

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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?

The answer is simple - people post what they want to post about.   I think Fritz
is a well respected engine that has been around a long time and always near the
top of the charts.  IMO, it is one those rare engines that was near the top 12-
13 years ago and it is still near the top, i.e., it has kept with the changes in
chess programming.  Fritz has always been known to provide very reliable pvs and
play very sound.  It is known for being avery difficult engine for humans (more
so that others).



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