Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 09:55:33 03/11/98
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On March 11, 1998 at 12:16:41, Mark Young wrote: > >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 I agree wholeheartedly. Fritz 5 deserves to be on top because with a standard engine scored better than the other programs. Now, I personally don't think it is 55 points better. In fact, I don't think there is any real difference in strength between Fritz 5, Rebel 9, Hiarcs 6 or Nimzo 98. Diferences are in playing style and in features, not in strength. I am playing 40 in 2 games on P200MMX machines. So far I have the following results: F5 (48MB)- Nimzo98(48MB) 5-5 F5 (100MB)- Mchess 7.1 (63MB) 7-5 F5 (100MB)- Hiarcs 6 (63MB) 7-9 F5 (100MB)- Rebel 9 (60MB) 6-8 All DOS programs run with maximum hashtables. In the match F5-N98 I had to allocate 48 MB hashtables only, because one of my machines has only 64 MB RAM. Few games, I know. Enrique
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