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Subject: Re: Chess, lies and videotape (was: Re: SSDF rating list soon history?)

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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