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Subject: Re:Thorsten, fritz5 has positional understanding(examples)

Author: Mark Young

Date: 17:00:38 05/26/98

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On May 26, 1998 at 19:29:31, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>>b5 is correct:
>
>>Fritz5 found b5 after 32 minutes and 43 seconds in my computer
>>pentium200Mh when it used 99,968 Kbytes hash tables
>>the depth is 14 brute force and 43 selective
>
>Hiarcs6 changes from c4 into b5 after 29". And in 128" into Nc6
>(for Moritz and other materalists, thats 67.68 times faster, although
>Hiarcs6 had only 32MB hash).
>
>Cstal 313a switches from c4 into Nc6 (same move Hiarcs6 likes) after
>1175" (for Moritz: 1.67 times faster than
>fritz5]
>
>MChess7.1  needs 45'24" to find Nc6.
>
>Rebel9 plays b5 after 1'28" (worth 22.30 Moritz)  and changes after
>1'45" into Nc6.
>
>>Junior4.6 could not find this move in one hour.
>
>>I do not like the fact fritz5 is a good program but I cannot ignore
>facts.
>
>I do not ignore facts.  As you can see: fast searchers need more time to
>see through the above position. :-)
>

Wrong again. With just 10 mb of hash. Fritz 5 finds Nc6 at 0 sec.!! And
sticks with it after 30 min. I tested Fritz with many hash settings and
it never picked c4 at any time. The only moves it found were Nc6 and b5.




>>They do not deserve to be a good program because they want to be
>>number 1 by unfair means.
>
>I am different opinion. Fritz is a nice program. Frans and the ChessBase
>team deserve any compliments. But in
>chess, it is only weak. I don't think it is number one. And you are
>right, their methods don't have my sympathy too.
>
>
>>Uri



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