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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