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Subject: Re: Results of Junior 6a vs Fritz 6a 100 Game match 40/40+40/40+40

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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