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Subject: Re: Adams-Pocket Fritz: 1800-1900 Elo at best

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:02:52 06/30/01

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On June 30, 2001 at 17:17:41, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi:
>If you look at the ganme Adams won to Pocket Fritz, you will concur that we are
>facing a program that, at least in this game, left the human side to kill him as
>a child. The most elemental king attack I have seen in years and nevertheles
>went OK. Blacks messing around in the queen side with no idea what to do as
>amads prepared the knife. Not even elemental defensives moves to prevent what
>was clearly coming with the obvious machine bishop-queen in the diagonal.
>Sorry, but I have a Fidelity old piece of plastic that plays better than that...
>Fernando


You sound surprised.  If you take a program that plays well at 1000K nodes
per second, and run it on hardware where it can only search 1K nodes per
second, what would you logically expect to happen?  It will play with 1/1000th
the skill (or even worse).



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