Author: Roy Brunjes
Date: 11:05:13 03/05/00
After the results that Enrique posted for his Cadaques tournament (great effort there Enrique -- thanks!), I decided to run a match of my own to see how a greater number of games may affect outcome of a match between these two. Time Control: 40 moves in 40 mins, 40 moves in 40 mins, 40 mins/rest of game Computer Used : Pentium II 400 MHz Hash Tables: Each program used 48 MB RAM for hash tables Tablebases: Default TBs from Fritz 6 CD used (i.e. No Endgame Turbo CD's) Number of games: 100 -- this took _several_ weeks to complete Opening Books: Junior 6a used jbook, Fritz 6a used its default (general). Result: Junior won by 51-49 ... VERY close. Most people seem to believe that Fritz 6a is the best (or one of the very top) programs at Blitz, and that Junior 6a is stronger at slower time controls. This match, IMHO, shows that Fritz 6a is also very strong at longer time controls (at least up to 40 moves in 40 mins). Junior is reputed to have better positional understanding (and I have seen several examples of this posted here and elsewhere on the Internet), but Fritz 6a has shown that it's overall abilities are pretty much equal. I can post the games here if there is interest. I don't want to clog CCC with the game scores if there is no interest. Roy
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