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Subject: Re: Pocket Fritz v Pocket Genius - Seven test positions

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 05:08:55 09/02/01

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On September 01, 2001 at 15:55:00, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On September 01, 2001 at 12:39:39, Steve Maughan wrote:
>
>>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!
>
>
>
>I have tried these positions with Chess Tiger for Palm (Gambit style) on a
>device that gets a TigerMark of 1.35 (some devices can reach a TigerMark of 2)
>and here are the results:
>
>
>
>
>>[d]8/1p1k1p2/p2PbPp1/P1P1K1Pn/1P5R/8/8/8 w - -
>>b5 or Rxh5: Pocket Fritz 35 sec, Genius 2 min 44 sec
>
>
>Chess Tiger for Palm: 352s (5mn 52s).
>
>More hash tables would help!
>
>
>
>>[d]8/5p2/pk2p3/4P2p/2b1pP1P/P3P2B/8/7K w - -
>>Bg4: Pocket Fritz 38 sec, Genius 4 sec
>
>
>Chess Tiger for Palm: 264s (4mn 24s).
>
>More hash tables would help!
>
>
>
>>[d]8/6k1/P5r1/8/8/Kp5R/8/8 w - -
>>Rg3: Pocket Fritz 6 sec, Genius 8 sec
>
>
>Chess Tiger for Palm: 26s.
>
>
>
>>[d]r1b1k2r/2q2p2/p1Np1P1b/3Pn2p/1p6/4Q3/PPP4P/1K1R1BR1 w kq –
>>Qxh6: Pocket Fritz 5 min 38 sec, Genius 16 sec
>
>
>Chess Tiger for Palm: 24s.
>
>
>
>>[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
>
>
>Chess Tiger for Palm: 197s (3mn 17s).
>
>
>
>>[d]r3rbk1/p1qbpp2/1p1p2p1/3P3p/3BB2P/2P2QP1/PP3P2/R3R1K1 w - -
>>Bxg6: Pocket Fritz 4 min 53 sec, Genius 1 min 4 sec
>
>
>Chess Tiger for Palm: 317s (5mn 17s).
>
>
>
>>[d]5r1k/1nqr1pp1/p2Np2p/1p2P3/7Q/P1P4R/1P4PP/5RK1 w - -
>>Rf6: Pocket Fritz 1 min 32 sec, Genius 1 min 27 sec
>
>
>Chess Tiger for Palm: 360s (6mn).
>
>
>
>
>Now some statistics:
>
>I have computed for each position the ratio between Tiger's solution time and
>the average solution time of Fritz and Genius.
>
>Pos   Ratio
>01     3.54
>02    12.57
>03     3.71
>04     0.14
>05     0.61
>06     1.78
>07     4.02
>
>
>The average ratio is 3.77.
>
>That means that on these positions Chess Tiger for Palm is only 3.77 times
>slower than the average of Fritz and Genius running on a processor 10 times
>faster!
>
>That gives me hopes for my PocketPC version of Chess Tiger! :)
>
>
>
>    Christophe

Yes! I was wondering what you were trying to prove until I saw the bottom line.

So! What then is a pocket computer?

S.Taylor



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