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Subject: Re: Fritz 5 is the best at tactics!

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 01:10:23 11/02/98

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On November 01, 1998 at 14:12:22, Torstein Hall wrote:

>I think that on the tactical sde, there is no on like Fritz 5!
>The following pos. is a nice illustration.
>
>r4r1k/2q2ppp/1np1b3/p1b1pNB1/2B1P3/8/PPP1Q1PP/3R1R1K w - - 0 19
>
>The winning move is Nxg7!
>
>On a AMD k6 200
>J5: Not found in 5 minutes
>F5: Found in 55 sec.
>H6: Not found in 5 minutes
>Crafty 15.20: Not found i 5 minutes
>
>
>Torstein
Gromit X needed about 6 minutes on a Sun Ultra Sparc 1. This would give
about 4 minutes on my K6/200.
I'm sure Fritz is a very good tactician, but
a) one position proves nothing
b) beeing good at tactics is important but overall-strenght does also depend
   on other factors (positional play, book)
Frank



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