Author: Kai Lübke
Date: 02:17:46 02/09/98
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On February 06, 1998 at 07:44:27, Didzis Cirulis wrote: >Dear chessfriends, > >This is my first day in Computer-Chess Club. >My question is to those of you who has the Fritz 5 chess program: What >is really good in it and How does it stand against other programs like >Rebel 9.0 or Hiarcs 6.0? F5 is slightly below R9 or H6 in playing strength, but it has an enormous lot of features (like the correspondence analysis, blunder check, coach mode etc.) that make it stand out from the rest. And you can get Hiarcs 6 (maybe still the strongest program in the world) and World Champion Junior as plugin engines for Fritz (at half the prize of the full product) and use all of Fritz' features with these engines, too! Also, Fritz has an almost revolutionary book concept. In general, I fully agree with the praise it gets at www.chessbase.com, except for the allusion that it excels Hiarcs or Rebel in playing strength which is based only on the (not undisputed) Nunn test set. Here are some results from the Louguet II test on my machine for comparison: Hiarcs 6 2535 Rebel 9 2530 Rebel 8 2525 MChess 7 2480 Fritz 5 2465 <----- Chessm. 5500 2430 MChess 5 2410 Crafty 14.1 2405 So Fritz is among the best, but not at the very top. My test and tournament games support that impression. However, if you buy the Hiarcs 6 engine as well, you get a product that leaves almost nothing left to wish for. >My next question is if there is a Rebel 9.0 engine compatible with >Fritz 5? No (not yet). Maybe Ed can shed some light on this, but it's not impossible there may be a Rebel 10 engine late this year? (Don't want to start any rumours, though! :-) --- Shep
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