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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:23:45 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 match is in dates 25.11. to 05.12.06 and we cannot be 100% sure that fritz
is not going to be the best program at that time(inspite of the fact that I do
not expect it to happen)

I do not support chessbase advertisement but I think that it is not a lie but
only a misleading advertisement.

Lying is saying something that you know that it is not correct and in this case
it is possible that deep fritz is going to be the strongest computer program in
the time of the match and in that case the claims in the advertisement are
correct(chessbase did not claim that fritz is today the strongest program).

Uri



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