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

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 23:11:32 06/30/01

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On June 30, 2001 at 23:02:52, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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).

In my opinion the whole Pocket Fritz concept is wrong. Why not use a more pure
tactical program instead of SMK's Shredder that has too much knowledge to run on
such a low hardware.
Kurt



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