Author: Len Eisner
Date: 12:07:29 03/05/00
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On March 05, 2000 at 14:05:13, Roy Brunjes wrote: >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 Did you play the match on a single PC or did you use two machines? Len
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