Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 11:17:53 11/29/01
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On November 29, 2001 at 14:11:22, Ian Aston wrote: >I received my copy of Fritz7 today and notice that the engine is version >7.0.0.2. This means that the people who bought the German version get version >7.0.0.1 as well as being able to upgrade to 7.0.0.2. It appears that I can only >have version 7.0.0.2 and can't help feeling a bit cheated by this. > >However, the engine appears to be a monster, at least at blitz. I ran 37 5 >minute blitz games against Gambit Tiger 2.0 and got a score of +22 -6 =9. AMD >1.3, ponder off, 64MB and 48MB hash tables respectively. You may say it is a >statistical blip but I have never seen Tiger lose blitz games like this to any >opponent, never mind by this score. I can't help wondering if something is >wrong. Has anybody had similar results at this time control? > >IA I wonder whether Gambit Tiger 2.0 was the primary target of the programmers of Fritz 7. Anyway, your results are apparently not atypical of the early blitz results we are seeing for Fritz 7.0.0.2; they are indeed amazing. Has there ever been a chess engine that improved so much between its initial release (in this case, 7.0.0.1) and its first patch release (here, 7.0.0.2)?
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