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

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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