Author: Mike Hood
Date: 02:59:03 11/01/01
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On November 01, 2001 at 05:40:51, Hansjoerg wrote: >On November 01, 2001 at 02:09:59, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>I quess no MMX is simply "no Man Machine eXtension" :-) >>So it definitely plays better against computers. But SSDF must test standard >>version... >> >>Jouni > >In the file liesmich.txt (readme.txt) of the Fritz 7 CD is the explanation: > >(German) >... >4. Alte Prozessoren ohne MMX > >Die Fritz7-Schachengine läuft nur auf MMX-fähigen Prozessoren. Auf älteren >Computern wird automatisch die etwas schwächere Engine Fritz7 NoMMX geladen. > >(english transaltion) >4. Olders processors without MMX >The Fritz 7 engine runs only on MMX compatible CPUs. On older computer >the little bit weaker Fritz 7 NoMMX engine is automatically used. > >----- > >In my test games on an Athlon XP 1700+ (512 MB DDRRAM) system running Windows XP >Fritz 7 (MMX version) is now leading 13.5 : 3:5 against Junior 7 !!! (hard to >believe) > >Each engine had 144MB hash (games in 15min + 10s). > >Regards >Hansjoerg Thanks for quoting the readme's, but is this the whole story? Chessbase's greatest weakness is the documentation. They never tell the users what's going on behind the scenes. Judging by other posts on the No MMX Engine, the alternative engine is not "little bit weaker".
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