Author: Mats Winther
Date: 01:56:26 04/10/98
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Thanks for investigating my results, but I am amazed to see that some people think I cheated the results. I'm glad to see that at least Fernando understood what I was talking about. Even ChessBase GmbH admits that Fritz is rather stupid but instead fast. And they say that it is suitable as an analysing module, and they may be right. But I tried to show that it is not necessarily suitable for engine-engine games. I also stated that most other programs are more fun to play against. How can anybody think differently having played against the other top programs? Or do grown up adults fall in love with a chess program and cannot stand it being critizised? I was invited to a Fritz5 discussion by e-mail and I did not expect cry-babies to be around. Let us have a serious discussion between adults. The conditions for the two test games were these: Cyrix-686/200 with 48 Mb RAM. I used engine-engine in Fritz5. Since the Fritz module starts swapping if more than half of the RAM is used for hash (something I don't understand and cannot fix) I set the hash sizes for each module to 11328 Mb. This is consequently about the maximum size on my computer (remember that most PC owners seldom have more than 32 Mb RAM). The clock settings for the first game was 120´/40+60´/20+30´. The clock settings for the second game was 90´/30+60´/20+30´ (consequently about three minutes per move in both cases). No Power Books were used. The thing is that Fritz5 plays completely horrible chess in both these instances. I know that the hash size is too small for Fritz but a human with 2560 would never play like this. Such bad play should not occur with a top program even with small hash. Or does Fritz5 play badly only with this hardware configuration? I am bewildered since so many get different results. Mats Winther
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