Author: Mark Young
Date: 09:16:41 03/11/98
So Far I can not find any evidence that Fritz 5 (Chessbase) cheated in
any way on the SSDF testing. It looks to me that the test was fair as
far as Fritz 5 gos. I do have problems with the way SSDF ran the
testing. I do not understand why you would test some games with Fritz 5
with the endgame database on and some games with it off.(why not just
test all game with it on? and test all programs that can use it with the
option turned on.) SSDF also used 44 MB and 61 MB of hash tables in the
games that I saw. SSDF also tested some games with power book and some
with just the Fritz 5 book. I think SSDF needs to test programs with
there strongest settings as stated in the manual. SSDF's biggest mistake
was to use powerbook with Fritz5 I do not know if it helped or hurt
fritz 5 but this is not standard equipment with Fritz 5 it's an upgrade,
and should not have been used. Testing Fritz with 44 MB and 61 MB hash
tables was not a huge advantage for Fritz so I can live with that.(made
Fritz about 10% faster vs 24 MB) So I would conclude that Fritz 5 should
be #1 on the rating list, but not by 55 points.
Mark
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