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

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 20:40:30 03/01/06

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On March 01, 2006 at 23:06:18, Telmo C. Escobar wrote:

>On March 01, 2006 at 09:21:40, David Dahlem wrote:
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>>On March 01, 2006 at 09:11:52, Tord Romstad wrote:
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>>>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
>
>
> That should be Chessmaster.

Yes, but ... Chessbase is famous for making false claims. :-)

Dave


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>     Telmo
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>>, but also on that page, they call Fritz "the world's
>>strongest", which is an outright untruth.
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>>Regards
>>Dave



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