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Subject: Re: From the ChessBase site: Fritz vs Kramnik

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 06:21:40 03/01/06

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On March 01, 2006 at 09:11:52, Tord Romstad wrote:

>Taken from the ChessBase site:
>
>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2947
>
>    The classical World Chess Champion against the world's strongest
>    computer program: In the WORLD CHESS CHALLENGE (WCC) 2006 classical
>    chess World Champion Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) will play a match
>    against the world's leading chess computer program, Deep Fritz
>    (Germany).
>
>Calling Fritz "the world's leading chess computer program" is not just
>stretching the truth, it's blatantly untrue.  I refuse to believe that
>ChessBase is unaware of the existence of chess programs stronger than
>Fritz.  They are lying, plain and simple.
>
>It is also getting boring to always watch the same programs get the
>chance to play against the top GMs.
>
>Tord

"the world's leading chess computer program" could be loosly interpreted to mean
the leading seller, but also on that page, they call Fritz "the world's
strongest", which is an outright untruth.

Regards
Dave




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