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Subject: Re: I NEED HELP WITH FRITZ6A

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 22:01:08 04/01/00

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On April 01, 2000 at 19:18:25, john rice wrote:

>Please help me. I am getting crushed by a friend who uses junior6a. His hardware
>is a little better than mine: 333mhz vs 650mhz. Do you know any way I can
>overcome this disadvantage? Maybe some engine parameter settings. Would I have a
>better chance with shorter or longer time controls? Thanks for your help.

John,

Don't worry, I have Junior 6a on a 333 Mhz P II with only 64Mbytes of RAM and it
crushes me when I play it.  Forget about playing someone with a faster machine.

Your next step is to buy Junior 6a or trade your friend Fritz 6a.   I think that
Fritz 6a is better at fast time controls than Junior 6a.   Todays "PC" computers
are only baby toys compared to what is coming.  When your friend has a quad
machine cooking at 1.5 GHz you can trump him by waiting a year and getting a
quad 3.0 GHz. machine.  Then he will get a faster machine later that year.

Play your friend at 5 minutes for the whole game and drive him nuts.  Make sure
he is not a violent person.  If he is not violent then make sure you taunt him
and his lousy computer every time he loses.  On the other hand--maybe not. Both
of you should turn "permanent brain" off.


Tim Frohlick



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