Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 23:47:05 03/15/98
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On March 15, 1998 at 06:08:18, Dirk Frickenschmidt wrote: >On March 15, 1998 at 03:22:28, Albert Silver wrote: > >Hi Albert, > >> >>On March 14, 1998 at 18:27:28, Mark Young wrote: >> >>>UPDATE: Fritz 5 lost its first game today to ChessGenius4. Here are the >>>new results. >>> >>> >>>14 Games have been played avg. rating of players is 2513.429. Fritz 5 >>>has scored 82%. This gives Fritz 5 a Performence rating of 2770.696 >>> >>> >>> >>>Move 18... Bxg2?? seems to be the losing move in the game. Fritz gets a >>>pawn and a positionally lost game,and Genius 4 gets the attack. This was >>>all book for genius 4. A very nice anti-computer line put in by Lang. >>> >>> >> >>Are you sure this is an anti-computer line? Remember Fritz 5 came out >>long after Genius 4. >> >> Albert >(game snipped) > >Fritz5 plays normal GM-moves from its book. It has no cautiously >hand-tuned library like all other top programs have, neither in its >standard book nor in the new power book. The library is simply compiled >from strong human chess games. So it can get into such a hand-tuned line >from time to time, though being released later than those program which >have more or less special tuning. > >By the way I regard this as one more example of Ossi Weiner's really >ridiculous claims that exactly that program that has the smallest >opening tuning of all the present top programs would be rated so high >for its (GM-play based, not anti-computer tuned!) power-book in the >SSDF. > > >Kind regards from Dirk The claim that it was an anti-computer line was not a claim that it was a "cooked" line, and the claim was made for Genius 4, not Fritz 5. So this has nothing to do with the current furor. My personal opinion is that the main detraction from Fritz is the lack of a publicly-available autoplayer. Thus, Fritz remains unused in my library, and I play with Rebel and Genius and CS-Tal. I will not buy an upgrade of Fritz without an autoplayer, as a few more ELO points to me are unimportant, ease of use is. If DB in a box ever comes out, I would probably buy that to see how it played, but I'd want an autoplayer there too. Kind regards back, kp p.s. Perhaps Thorsten's results come from his AMD machines. I heard that Fritz was optimized for Pentium MMX. But this is in response to a different thread.
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