Author: stuart taylor
Date: 18:59:25 01/14/01
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On January 14, 2001 at 21:09:18, James T. Walker wrote: >On January 14, 2001 at 17:58:12, CLiebert wrote: > >>I am not shure if the engine from 16-Dec plays better. A first comparision over >>24 games against april-2000 version was lost by chance?! >> >>Christian > >Hello Christian, >Of course a lot depends on the conditions under which the match was played. >Also in a 24 game match it's impossible to separate 2 engines as closely rated >as the two Fritz engines. As I said before in my first 82 game match vs Chess >Tiger 13.0 the new Fritz did better than any other version before. I just >finished a 50 game match vs Junior 6. Fritz 6e won 27.5 - 22.5. So of course >it's not a major step up in strength (for free) but I believe it may be a small >improvement. Only many more games will tell. Also testing an engine against >itself is my last option since I'm more interested in how it performs against >the other top programs. >Jim Maybe it has a few small improvements, and they want to thereby get people interested in still buying Fritz6a, before they let out Fritz 7 with bigger improvements. It also might serve to make everyone (e.g. here) into beta testers, 6e being a beta to Fritz 7.0-by giving it free at this stage. If not for these two reasons, I can't think why they should be doing this now. S.Taylor
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