Author: Roman Hartmann
Date: 05:29:45 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 I guess it's a bit like with MS software. Everybody is using it while everybody keeps talking about it badly. Btw, I really hate MS Word. >2) Fritz and chessbase have dominated for so long that people love to hate them >and cheer against them See above. >3) fritz is a big corprate power, and the programers for rybka and fruit are >brilliant individuals challenging the corporation I'm afraid they are no real challenge as they offer a product which is only recognized and bought by a rather small community. Roman >or am i way off base?
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