Author: José Carlos
Date: 05:55:25 11/09/01
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On November 09, 2001 at 07:24:09, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 09, 2001 at 05:04:40, Matthias Gemuh wrote: > >>On November 09, 2001 at 04:02:33, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On November 09, 2001 at 03:54:34, Matthias Gemuh wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>In the CSS forum (german), it has been revealed that Fritz 7 (NoMMX) is actually >>>>Fritz 6. >>>>Versions (and file sizes) are: >>>> >>>>Fritz 6 = 6.0.0.74 (304 KB) >>>>Fritz 7 (NoMMX) = 6.0.0.76 (356 KB) >>> >>> >>>I think that 6.0.0.76 is different than 6.0.0.74 >>> >> >>Of course, they are different. One is Fritz 6c, the SHOULD BE Fritz 6d. > >I do not think that you have the right to decide about the names. >Chessbase decide about the name and if they call it Fritz7 then it is Fritz7. > >The name of the file is not important for the name of the engine. >They could use the name 88.0.0.888 if they wanted. >In that case It is still Fritz7 and not Fritz88. Of course the name is not important. I think what he means is that Fritz7 MMX and no MMX produce different moves, and that no MMX is closer to Fritz 6. Also, the internal version number means a lot. If they call it internally 6.0.0.76, that usually means is rebuild #76 of version 6 (minor changes). After a major change, the name it 7.xxx. This is to be expected bu, of course, the only way to know if no mmx version is clearly better than F.6 is testing. >It is not important if there is only a small change in Fritz6 to get Fritz7. >If they change one line of code and make the engine 200 elo better than people >are going to be happy to buy the new engine. True. Strenght is the important thing. But nobody improves an engine 200 points buy changing a line of code... I could worsen it though... :) >It is an extreme example >If you want to think about more realistic example then if they change 1% of the >source code and make it 50 elo better than I will be happy to buy it. Nobody cares about the % of change to the source code. People buy new versions because they are stronger or the GUI has new/improved features. >In the relevant case it seems that they even changed clearly more than 1% of the >source code. > >Fritz6 is 304Kbytes >Fritz7(no mmx is 356 Kbytes) And this is nonsense. The exact same source code can compile to different file sizes depending on optimizations, compiler, operating system... Even a single word like __inline can change the size a lot. >This is a big change of more than 17% only on the size of the code and the >change in the source code may be more than it because changing is not only >adding source code. > >Uri José C.
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