Author: Charles Milton Ling
Date: 16:35:50 10/06/98
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On October 06, 1998 at 16:56:23, blass uri wrote: > >On October 06, 1998 at 15:29:23, Charles Milton Ling wrote: > >>I have the vague, uncertain, and not scientifically substantiated feeling that >>Fritz 5.16 is slower than before the upgrade. > >I found that in the following position: > >r4rk1/2p3pp/p7/1p1pq3/8/2P2N2/PPQ2KPP/R1B5 white to move > >Fritz5.16 is significantly faster than fritz5 in avoiding kg1 that is losing >after Rxf3(I do not know about fritz5.03 because I did not download this update) > >Fritz5 needed more than an hour when fritz5.16 needs less than 15 minutes on my >pentium200MMX > I have a PentiumII 266 with 64 MB RAM. Giving Fritz 44 of those (hash tables filled in about 3 minutes), he needed 45 minutes to fall out of love with Kg1, preferring Be3, but still giving Kg1 a 0.09 rating (at 15 ply, by the way). Strange, isn't it? Of course, I have no idea what might have happened before the upgrade. > > >> It seems to me that the ply >>numbers take longer to rev up than they used to. > >The ply numbers are not important >It is possible that the ply number take longer because the program sees more in >low plies. > Doesn't (for example) 8/15 mean that absolutely everything is examined over 8 half-moves? What can you see that is more than everything? >I do not know if the upgrade is productive or counter productive in tournament >time control > >Uri Thanks for your comments, Uri! I still like Fritz, rest assured. But I wonder why your Fritz is better than my Fritz... Charley
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