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Subject: Re: Fritz 7 no MMX??

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 13:41:45 10/31/01

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Oh Stupid me! I always thought that MMX was short for Multi Media Xtensions!
ChessBase has obviously found that to simple!

Torstein

On October 31, 2001 at 16:10:06, Mike S. wrote:

>On October 31, 2001 at 15:17:40, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>On October 30, 2001 at 19:39:28, Mike S. wrote:
>>(...)
>>>FRITZ7~1 ENG       430.080  13.10.01  18:22 Fritz 7.eng
>>>FRITZ7~2 ENG       364.544  13.10.01  18:23 Fritz 7 (No MMX).eng
>
>>What is the difference Fritz 7.eng and Fritz7 (No MMX).eng? Same playing
>>strenght? Other features?
>
>The standard F7 engine has a new additional set of engine parameter settings,
>including piece values etc. The No MMX engine has the settings known before.
>Both use the tablebases of course.
>
>So far, tests have shown (or seem to indicate at least), that the No MMX engine
>plays more successful against other engines. See for example these results
>provided by Gerhard Sonnabend:
>
>http://f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/28538.htm
>
>I think it is too early to say that F7 "No MMX" in generally stronger in
>computerchess than the standard F7 engine; we'll have to wait for results from
>faster CPUs and longer time controls (I'd be surprised if they are significantly
>different though... but I don't know). Gerhards tests were 30 Min.-games at
>K6/350, Noomen opening positions.
>
>I think that the MMX using code which the standard engine has in addition (or
>alternatively) to the No MMX engine, may contain the parts of the engine
>designed to play better against humans. This is only an assumption, maybe only
>Frans Morsch could answer this. Probably it has a much larger evaluation
>function than the No MMX version, which would be a possible explanation for the
>lower node rate.
>
>In other words: I don't know... :o)
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl



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