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Subject: Re: Fritz5

Author: Peter Herttrich

Date: 03:14:56 12/19/97

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On December 18, 1997 at 15:41:07, Thorsten Czub wrote:


>>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).
>
>Bullshit ! And also not my problem. If they tune on Intel CPU, is that a
>problem of a customer who buys a software of the year 1997 ?
>Maybe you should tell the people WHEN you call it a software of the year
>1997
>not to buy 200,- DM Fritz5 but also 200 ,- DM for RAM and another 500,-
>DM to get an INTEL instead of AMD.
>The AMD CPU works perfectly well for computerchess as all other
>benchmarking with all my other programs has shown. I have no fault when
>Frans tunes assembler on INTEL chip ! Is it my problem when ChessBase
>AND Morsch gave their best to castrate their SOFTWARE of the YEAR 1997
>that much ??

Did I understand right? FRITZ5 is playing weaker/slower at an AMK/K6
then on a Pentium/MMX with the same Clock-Frequency???

If this is the case, forget the program.
By the way (I use FRITZ4.01), is FRITZ5 an engine with some database
or a DATABASE with some engine?


Peter



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