Author: Steve Lopez
Date: 22:12:02 12/30/99
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On December 29, 1999 at 18:47:10, Albert Silver wrote: >Commercially there are two: the German and the English. The others are for CB's >pleasure to tantalize their customers into howling frustration as they speak of >wondrous secret 'test' versions in their laboratories. In fact, they are already >at several versions later, maybe Fritz 8 or Fritz 9 engine-wise, but know that >until they have them, there are no guarantees that there will be stronger >versions yet, so better to dole them out a little at a time. In CB, they are >known by their nicknames, named after historical figures of the past: Fritz 5 >was "Caesar", Fritz 6 was "Nero", Fritz 7 (codenamed T55) was "Caligula", and >now we are told that Fritz 8 (also called Fritz 6.66) is known as "El Diablo". I >must say I find this deterioration in the names of the versions quite alarming. > Actually, Fritz7 is nicknamed "De Sade", so named because it's tormenting the programmers. It's being written for WindowsY2K, so when there's unexpected behavior with Fritz, there's no way to tell if the problem is the OS, the GUI, or the engine (hence the nickname). -- Steve Lopez The Chess Kamikaze Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/ludekdudek/ The Chess Kamikaze Club: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/chesskamikazes
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