"Marian Cascaval" wrote

I don't get it.

Indeed. See below.

Why have been decided to play with Fritz since it has been outranked
by Shredder 7.04 (in SSDF list) and it seems it will be outranked by
Junior 8 too?

Even if the Morsch team intend to come up with Fritz 9 or something
the Chess Base team would not know how the program will perform
compared to others.

It seems ChessBase are only interested to advertise their leading
software when it comes to big events and not to provide the chess
world with the toughest battle between man and machine.

First, the ELO rating difference between Shredder and Fritz on the SSDF
rating list is tiny, and meaningless. Either program can beat the other one.
Second, computer vs. computer doesn't translate to human vs. computer.
Shredder could be the best engine when playing other engines, and Fritz
might be the best when playing humans (not saying it is, but you can't use
the SSDF computer vs. computer tiny rating differences as support for
questioning "why Fritz?").

Besides, what is wrong with a company marketing their premiere product?