Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

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

Author: Ted Summers

Date: 08:54:39 03/01/06

Go up one level in this thread


So I take it from this that Kramnik is no longer ill :), I wish he would play
with the TOP humans instead. As far as I can see the "Classical World Chess
Champion" is washed up. However I really wish he would show me otherwise by
playing in more events with his peers.

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



This page took 0.01 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.