Author: blass uri
Date: 21:35:56 05/05/98
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On May 05, 1998 at 18:26:06, Moritz Berger wrote: >And Fritz 5 (thanks god) is no DOS program, unlike M-Chess oder CSTal, >right? I do not like it. I do not understand why are you against DOS programs. It is better that the program will have 2 options I can choose (1 for DOS and 1 for Windows) (if I know I want to use other application in the same time I use windows and otherwise I use DOS) >Because Fritz 5 is no DOS program. Releasing a DOS version for the SSDF >would have upset me (!) and made me join the anti-ChessBase gang on this >argument. Do you remember Genius4/DOS/SSDF? On a 8 MB machine, Genius >got 7 MB hash tables, Fritz 4 on the same machine (running as a Win 3.1 >application) got 512 KB hash tables. I think you get the point ... Fritz >5 under DOS might be 20% faster than under Windows. My argument has >always been: The F5/SSDF engine plays *exactly* like the out of the box >commercial Fritz 5 product (both are Windows programs, both have >identical books, identical chess engines), it only has one additional >coponent: An auto232 compatible device driver. DOS might be 20% faster? when I asked about it in this club I was told that only 5-10%
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