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Subject: Re: Fritz5 is good - surprise in endgame test suite!

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 10:13:56 05/25/98

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On May 25, 1998 at 11:15:08, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On May 25, 1998 at 01:27:28, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>I have only Fritz5 "demo" from Chessbase USA. It runs nice in my old
>>486 with only 8M RAM. Fritzmark is 88 KN/s (49).
>>In old Modul enggame test Fritz got nice 29! So Frans Morsch really
>>has done something in engine - Fritz 3 got 24 and Fritz 4 26 in same
>>test. This 29 is the best of all my programs: Rebel 26, Mchess 27(no
>>help from 500 M tablebases), and Nimzo (Paderborn) 28.
>
>I have always felt that its a bit strange when someone tells me that
>Fritz 5 is not so good in the endgame. When I have played it against the
>Hiarcs 6 module( on the same PC, inside Fritz ) it has nearly always
>outplayed Hiarcs 6 in the ending!
>
>Torstein Hall

We have had very different experiences then. What machine is it run on?
I have seen Fritz lose many endgames because it allows one to readily
destroy it's pawn structure. Many. Hiarcs in the same endgame, NEVER
allows this if it can help it.

                                 Albert Silver



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