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

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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