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Subject: Re: What Fritz 6(b)?

Author: Didzis Cirulis

Date: 05:16:37 09/01/00

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On September 01, 2000 at 07:19:58, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On September 01, 2000 at 02:40:48, C McClain Morris, Jr. wrote:
>
>>I contacted Steve Lopez and he is unaware of any Fritz 6b.
>
>Fritz 6a, 289280 bytes, 23-1-2000
>Fritz 6b, 290816 bytes, 10-4-2000
>
>It seems that Fritz 6a has some tablebase bugs, corrected in F6b. Aside from
>this, I seldom notice differences between 6a and 6b. There are exceptions, like
>this position:
>
>r1bqk2r/pppp1Npp/8/2bnP3/8/6K1/PB4PP/RN1Q3R b kq - 0 12; bm e8g8;
>
>On a P600E with 184MB hashtables, F6b finds 0-0 in 93 seconds, and F6a in 292.
>
>Enrique

As far as I see, there IS some difference. The first test match against F5.32,
5min/game, 12 games, was won by F6b impressively = 9.5-2.5.  Under the same
conditions F6a got 6-6.

The second match was a Gountlet. Again 5min/game. F6b won every opponent
convincingly. The best result for opponents was that of Hiarcs 7.32, which lost
by 2.5 vs 3.5 points of Fritz. Others were simply killed.

The third match is in progress. 60min/game. Gountlet. Opponents are Hiarcs 7.32,
Junior 6a, Crafty 17.11 (Chessbase) and Fritz 5.32. There will be 24 games
total. Game 3 in progress and Fritz is +1.50. Both previous games were won by
Fritz 6b.

Conditions: I use the Light.ctg which comes with F6 demo. The reason is that I
want to see engines thinking instead of coming out of book at move 30. No
tablebases used this time.

Didzis Cirulis




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