Author: Moritz Berger
Date: 12:07:38 12/18/97
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On December 18, 1997 at 13:09:43, Komputer Korner wrote: > >Thorsten, Fritz 5 would like to have more than 9Mb of hash tables. Do >you think that you could give it more? You are starving a fast searcher. Thorsten ***knows*** that Fritz will get an hash table overflow with his settings in about 10-15 seconds. It will then get 10 fold hash collisions at tournament time controls and he can comment on "misguided search and evaluations". Of course he's running Fritz on an AMD K6 processor which is the worst available environment for Fritz you can imagine (Pentium MMX should be about 75 percent faster for Fritz). Fritz plays only some of the commented dubious moves from Thorsten's game on my P233MMX with 100MB hash tables, in each case EVAL is different at same search depths. Thorsten is on a personal crusade. Whenever he attacks "fast and stupid" programs, he will pick Fritz. Whenever he attacks Fritz, he means Chessbase. When he attacks Chessbase he's angry because of one person that also plays a certain role in CSS magazine. So he really wants to hurt his old enemy at Chessbase and fight the shadows of the past. To me, this "cascaded attack" (you might call it an "xray" attack) is not acceptable. If he wants to fight Friedel, he may well do so. But then not pretend that it's fast chess engines in general or Fritz or Chessbase in particular. I appreciate constructive comments from Thorsten about almost every other computer chess matter, but when it comes to Fritz, his statements are somehow from another galaxy. Moritz
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