Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 23:07:05 04/11/98
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On April 10, 1998 at 04:56:26, Mats Winther wrote: >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 Mats-- Do you by any chance have the original German version of Fritz? I understand that the English version was 5.01 and had several improvements. Perhaps this is where the difference is? I have the English version, and I, too, was surprised by the Fritz results at SSDF, but since I do not have much time for manual play, and Fritz doesn't have a public autoplayer capability, this is a subjective opinion based on a few games I played after I got Fritz last September. kp
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