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Subject: Re: Endgame databases in SSDF testing of Fritz 5 and M-ChessPro 7.1

Author: Milton Zucker

Date: 04:38:27 03/11/98

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On March 11, 1998 at 05:39:13, Moritz Berger wrote:

>On March 10, 1998 at 22:27:38, Milton Zucker wrote:
>
>>    In all the discussions I've seen concerning the fairness in testing
>>Fritz 5, there is still one issue that I am not clear about.  Were both
>>programs allowed to use the endgame databases that come with them? And
>>if so, were the databases of each program downloaded to the hard disk
>>drive to increase access time?
>>...Milton Zucker...
>
>Fritz' databases were on CD all the time, which doesn't hurt since it
>probes them only at the root, not during the search.
>
>Moritz

Thanks, this answers half  my question.  But was MchessPro 7.1 also
allowed to use its endgame databases for SSDF games?  And if so, were
these database files loaded onto the hard disk or accessed from the cd?
...Milton...



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