Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 17:34:41 03/05/00
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On March 05, 2000 at 16:32:32, Roy Brunjes wrote: >On March 05, 2000 at 15:07:29, Len Eisner wrote: > >>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 > >I was forced to use the same machine (running NT) with perm brain switched off. >I couldn't tie up two machines that way and I do not have the RS-232 software. > >Roy The RS-232 software is built-in with Fritz/Junior. All you really needed was a null cable modem. Laurence
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