Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 13:02:52 05/28/98
I have just bought Fritz5, and I am very satisfied with it. But there is a disadvantage with it that everybody that want to buy it should be aware of. It is enormously memoryhungry. In the manual they recommend 72 MB! memory for a Pentium 200 in average 3-minutes play. And it is so. When the beast has eaten the hashmemory it nearly stops analyzing. To analyze longer time for example 15 minutes is impossible for usual homecomputers. I myself always play on shorter time, so my memory is enough (32MB on Pentum133). But if I should like to play tournament level I had to upgrade. The formula according to manual is 2 x HZ x minutes. Georg
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