Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:44:21 12/29/99
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On December 29, 1999 at 06:30:07, Michael Cummings wrote:
>On December 29, 1999 at 06:19:54, Charles Unruh wrote:
>
>>Here's the statement from the chessbase site.
>>
>>"A new masterpiece from the Austrian Nimzowerkstatt. Nimzo7.32 is currently the
>>strongest program using the Fritz interface. In a Nunn-Match Nimzo scored 11,5:
>>8,5 points against with Fritz (Grandmaster Dr. John Nunn suggested a set of ten
>>standard positions from modern opening
>>theory as basis for a match between chess computers)."
>>
>>Now is nimzo7.32 the strongest program or is it that chessbase thinks that the
>>market for fritz and H7.32 are petering out a bit, so they make a claim of
>>another program which is even stronger? I just wonder because I can't see any
>>other way to make such a statement a good business behavior.
>
>Well they are stating that it is the strongest, and telling you how they are
>making this claim, and how they obtained this claim by the method they stated.
>So like everything else leave it up to your own mind as to whether they are true
>or not.
>
>Lets face it, most serious chess people who would consider buying chessbase
>programs already know how strong most programs are and how they are ranked. So I
>think it makes them look foolish if their statements are false.
It's very likely this statement was made before the extensive external testing
it received, and was truthfull in regards to their in-house testing.
Albert Silver
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