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Subject: Re: what i dislike with fritz5.32 and fritz6, and why...

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 02:04:42 10/22/99

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On October 21, 1999 at 23:01:15, Laurence Chen wrote:

>This does not surprise me at all. I've seen this happens with other engines as
>well. I don't think it is fair to pick on Fritz and accuse it that it's stupid
>in  analysis or it's very dumb, but the user behind it. It's like the old
>saying, the blind leads the blind and they both fall off into the ditch.
>Therefore, this is a warning sign to all users who relies solely and takes any
>computer chess analysis as the ULTIMATE truth. I personally never take any chess
>analysis to its face value, I always play another move, or another ply and see
>if the evaluation changes dramatically. If it remains the same, then I know that
>the assessment is correct, if it changes dramatically, then it's because of the
>horizon effect which all chess engines suffer, and I would then conclude that
>the chess engine is off in its evaluation. To someone new to chess engine this
>may be a new revelation. Therefore the moral is one should never trust any
>analysis of chess engines without further investigation.
>Laurence

When i have a car and it says there is enough fuel in the tank,
i will NOT drive to a petrol-station.
If this makes me suddenly stand without fuel .... i call this a
shit car. and will bring it to a garage to repair it.

I know enough programs who don't change the evaulation
in such positions.
i better use THESE programs.
and call the others dump.




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