Author: Günther Simon
Date: 06:29:38 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 It is a pure marketing decision. Probably it is just a matter of time, Hiarcs, like Shredder, will be sold as standalone UCI too and then only Junior and Fritz will remain as Chessbase only commercial programs. Thus it looks they had not much choice for their exhibition match ;) If Fritz would lose, even their 'strongest vs. Human claims' would be damaged. Guenther
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