Author: Don Prohaska
Date: 15:11:41 05/28/98
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On May 28, 1998 at 16:02:52, Georg Langrath wrote: >I have just bought Fritz5, and I am very satisfied with it. But there is >a disadvantage with it that everybody that want to buy it should be >aware of. It is enormously memoryhungry. In the manual they recommend 72 >MB! memory for a Pentium 200 in average 3-minutes play. And it is so. >When the beast has eaten the hashmemory it nearly stops analyzing. To >analyze longer time for example 15 minutes is impossible for usual >homecomputers. >I myself always play on shorter time, so my memory is enough (32MB on >Pentum133). But if I should like to play tournament level I had to >upgrade. The formula according to manual is 2 x HZ x minutes. > >Georg Yes, that's what they want us to do! Keep Intel and the fat cats in the big bucks. Our computers are never up to it. Buy your 400mz with 150mg of ram, and the next chess program will demand twice that much to run well. I also have a 133 but with 64megs of ram. I usually just keep a 20mg hash. I get good results. I analyse postitions with Fritz and other programs at about the same time. I find Fritz does very well. I'm sure Czub might have something to say about it.
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