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Subject: I see your point.....

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 08:29:45 07/21/00

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>The depth is not important because different programs do different extensions.
>If you compare Crafty's depth with hiarcs you will find that Crafty goes deeper
>but Hiarcs also wins Crafty in blitz.
>
>Junior's depth is not plies so you cannot compare apples with oranges.
>
>I do not see a reason to worry about the fact that commercial programs win
>Crafty in blitz.
>
>Crafty wins faile in all time controls(You can download fail in the chessbase
>site) and I do not see it as a problem.

Exactly, blitz is not a true measure of strength. Any given program can win a
blitz series. I have even had TCB win a blitz series vs Hiarcs, yet we all know
that TCB is not as strong as Hiarcs. It just happened to win that gien day.

>>not many people has a multi processor. So I am wondering if is it possible to
>>maintain the same quality of game but with better speed? which is also my main
>>question.

>The ssdf does tournament time control games and Fritz6a is number 1 and not
>Crafty(not every program can be number 1 and I do not see the problem).

What is the difference between Fritz 6 and Fritz 6a?



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