08 Aug '04 17:05>
Originally posted by AsianRoseI still disagree, the game posted by Phlabibit clearly sees Feivel beating Fritz. Lately I have been practising my blitz play heavily in preparation for some OTB tourneys and I have been playing against Fritz on a PC with 2.5ghz CPU and 1.5gb of Ram and although Fritz beats me most of the time I have recorded several wins against it, and I had set it at full power with a so-called 2700 elo. Playing against Fritz on at a slower paced game (which gives me more analysis time) but at the same level of play on the same PC and I am beating it 70% of the time. I've been playing against computer programs since 1982 (psion chess on the speccy was the first) and although they have developed vastly they still all demonstrate the same weaknesses. i do agree with you somewhat but all these recorded games of GM's getting beat are where they have played against the program setup up on so-called 'supercomputers' with major cpu speeds and ram capacity. Most of the public ones were computers designed by IBM specifically designed for the purpose.
I'm sorry to be argumentative, but anyone who thinks Fritz or Shredder would have only a 1900 level at correspondence play probably has not kept up with developments in Human vs. Computer match ups. Of course, I'm not talking about running Fritz on my 4 year old computer or something similar against master level players, but cases where someone uses a n ...[text shortened]... metimes win (and yet often lose or draw) against programs running at full power. Sad, but true.
You do say however that on another chess-site someone cheated with a computer and ended up topping the ranks in blitz and slow play, blitz play I can well believ but slow play I have trouble believing that, unless of course the standard of chess-players were not as high as RHP.
You are not convincing me and their is proof on this site (see Phlabibits post) where fFritz is well beaten.
Like I said I am playing against Fritz a lot for pratise sakes on a relatively high-powered home PC and I am beating it the majority of the time.