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Subject: Re: Does the evaluation window weaken Fritz's performance?

Author: B. Clark

Date: 14:20:00 03/08/00

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On March 08, 2000 at 16:15:25, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>On March 08, 2000 at 15:30:20, B. Clark wrote:
>
>>I've seen the posts regarding the drop in performance of Rebel Tiger when the
>>evaluation window in enabled.  I was wondering if the same logic would apply to
>>the engines running in the Fritz G.U.I., namely Fritz 6a.  Should the evaluation
>>window be shut off to get the maximum performance from the Fritz engines, or is
>>the effect negligible?
>Mr. Clark,
>
>
>Playing one program against another, you should have this shut down but for you
>playing against the program would not really change the outcome.  For analysis
>you would want the eval screen on.  Running Winboard in the background will
>cause your program to play like a moron however.  If you have lots of RAM then
>you will see less of a performance drop..
>
>
>Tim Frohlick

Thanks for the info, Tim.  One more question: would using the "store evaluation"
function also weaken the program's performance?  I'm playing some games against
other programs, and I want to make sure that I have Fritz's performance
maximized.

Brett



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