Author: Steve Maughan
Date: 09:39:39 09/01/01
I’ve been playing around with Pocket Fritz for the last couple of days. The features are certainly great but IMO the playing strength is not definitely any better than Genius for the Pocket PC. Here is a selection of test position that I dug out from the early 90s. I realise that test positions are not the best way of determining the superior player but since I don’t have two iPAQs I can’t play them against each other. Of the seven positions Genius solves five quicker. I also tested Gambit Tiger 2 on the positions using my 1.5 GHz P4 – each position was solved in 1 second or less! [d]8/1p1k1p2/p2PbPp1/P1P1K1Pn/1P5R/8/8/8 w - - b5 or Rxh5: Pocket Fritz 35 sec, Genius 2 min 44 sec [d]8/5p2/pk2p3/4P2p/2b1pP1P/P3P2B/8/7K w - - Bg4: Pocket Fritz 38 sec, Genius 4 sec [d]8/6k1/P5r1/8/8/Kp5R/8/8 w - - Rg3: Pocket Fritz 6 sec, Genius 8 sec [d]r1b1k2r/2q2p2/p1Np1P1b/3Pn2p/1p6/4Q3/PPP4P/1K1R1BR1 w kq – Qxh6: Pocket Fritz 5 min 38 sec, Genius 16 sec [d]r3qr1k/pp3pbp/2pn4/7Q/3pP3/2NB3P/PPP3P1/R4RK1 w - - Rf6 (famous Fischer combination): Pocket Fritz 4 min 0 sec, Genius 6 min 42 sec [d]r3rbk1/p1qbpp2/1p1p2p1/3P3p/3BB2P/2P2QP1/PP3P2/R3R1K1 w - - Bxg6: Pocket Fritz 4 min 53 sec, Genius 1 min 4 sec [d]5r1k/1nqr1pp1/p2Np2p/1p2P3/7Q/P1P4R/1P4PP/5RK1 w - - Rf6: Pocket Fritz 1 min 32 sec, Genius 1 min 27 sec
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