Author: Mark Young
Date: 18:22:38 03/22/98
Had a chance today to play more games on ICC with Fritz 5. Here are the
new results.
18 games played avg. player rating of 2519.111 Fritz 5 has scored 78%
for a rating of 2735.336 .
I went into this testing thinking Fritz 5 was not any better then the
other programs I have, but that was thinking based on the older version
of Fritz 5. When this mess all started with Fritz 5 and SSDF I bought
the upgrade to Fritz 5 for retesting. (Upgraded to the version that ssdf
tested) I am coming to the conclusion that Fritz 5 is clearly better
then the other programs I have tested. I am coming to this conclusion
not just because of the results. I am looking at how the program is
winning. Fritz 5 is not better because it is using some kind of book
tricks or autoplayer cheats. Fritz 5 is winning because it is out
playing the other programs in all phases of the game. In my mind we have
reached the point were the critics of Fritz 5 are going to have to show
that Fritz 5 is not the best commercal program out instead of just
saying it.
Here is an example of what I am saying. Fritz 5 played 2 games vs
Wchessx. Fritz 5 won 2-0. Wchessx is one of the strongest programs on
ICC and runs on very fast hardware. Now look at HOW Fritz 5 playing
black for an even position in the Catalan opening totally out plays
Wchessx. And in a few moves has itself a won game.
[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1998.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Wchessx"]
[Black "Fritz 5"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E06"]
[Annotator "Young,M"]
[PlyCount "122"]
{32896kB, f5book.ctg
} 1. d4 {0} 1... Nf6 {0} 2. Nf3 {6} 2... d5 {0} 3. c4 {6}
3... e6 {0} 4. g3 {6} 4... Be7 {0} 5. Bg2 {8} 5... O-O {0} 6. Qc2 {6}
6... c5 {
0} 7. O-O {7} 7... cxd4 {0} 8. Nxd4 {6} 8... Nc6 {0} 9. Nxc6 {6} 9...
bxc6 {0}
10. Rd1 {7} 10... Ba6 {0} 11. cxd5 {67} 11... cxd5 {0.16/11 77} 12. Nc3
{7}
12... Bc5 {0.06/9 46} 13. Bf4 {66} 13... Rc8 {0.13/10 45} 14. e3 {13}
14... Nd7
{0.00/10 28} 15. Qa4 {64} 15... Bb7 {0.00/11 0} 16. Qb3 {58} 16... Ba8 {
-0.38/9 22} 17. g4 {61} 17... Qh4 {-0.44/10 42} 18. h3 {60} 18... Nb6 {
-0.25/10 0} 19. Bf1 {59} 19... f5 {-0.44/10 37} 20. Bg3 {55} 20... Qh6 {
-0.41/10 0} 21. gxf5 {49} 21... Rxf5 {-0.50/10 34} 22. Qc2 {17} 22...
Nc4 {
-0.63/8 21} 23. Kh2 {47} 23... Rcf8 {-0.69/10 0} 24. Bxc4 {55} 24...
dxc4 {
-1.22/11 0} 25. Rd2 {46} 25... Rh5 {-1.31/11 0} 26. e4 {32} 26... Rxh3+
{
-1.63/10 50} 27. Kg2 {7} 27... Rh5 {-1.84/10 38} 28. Rad1 {20} 28... Qf6
{
-2.91/10 9} 29. f4 {35} 29... Be3 {-3.09/10 0} 30. Rh1 {41} 30... Rxh1 {
-3.53/11 51} 31. Kxh1 {7} 31... Bxd2 {-3.44/11 27} 32. Qxd2 {13} 32...
Qh6+ {
-3.94/12 22} 33. Qh2 {42} 33... Qxh2+ {-3.88/15 0} 34. Bxh2 {44} 34...
Rb8 {
-3.56/13 0} 35. f5 {45} 35... Rxb2 {-3.72/13 0} 36. fxe6 {40} 36... Rc2
{
-3.66/12 10} 37. Be5 {51} 37... Kf8 {-3.75/12 0} 38. Kg1 {50} 38... Ke7
{
-4.09/12 45} 39. Bxg7 {8} 39... Kxe6 {-4.09/12 23} 40. Bh8 {19} 40... h5
{
-4.41/12 30} 41. Nb5 {37} 41... Kd7 {-4.47/12 0} 42. Nc3 {49} 42... h4 {
-4.81/14 0} 43. Bg7 {42} 43... Ke6 {-4.63/12 0} 44. Kh1 {57} 44... h3 {
-4.66/13 58} 45. Bh8 {38} 45... Bc6 {-4.63/13 15} 46. Kg1 {42} 46... Bd7
{
-6.16/11 18} 47. Nd5 {50} 47... Rxa2 {-6.88/11 14} 48. Bd4 {18} 48...
h2+ {
-7.31/11 24} 49. Kh1 {29} 49... a5 {-7.09/12 10} 50. Nc3 {38} 50... Rc2
{
-7.97/12 16} 51. Nd5 {19} 51... Bc6 {-8.28/12 0} 52. Bb6 {30} 52... Bxd5
{
-15.47/14 0} 53. exd5+ {27} 53... Kf5 {-11.72/12 1} 54. Bc7 {45} 54...
a4 {
-#8/13 0} 55. Bxh2 {49} 55... a3 {-#7/11 5} 56. Bg1 {25} 56... a2 {-#6/9
0} 57.
Bd4 {8} 57... c3 {-#5/7 0} 58. Bxc3 {7} 58... Rxc3 {-#4/5 0} 59. Kg2 {6}
59...
a1=Q {-#3/3 0} 60. d6 {8} 60... Qb2+ {-#2/1 0} 61. Kf1 {7} 61... Rc1#
{-#1/1 0}
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