Author: James Doby
Date: 16:18:33 01/11/02
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On January 11, 2002 at 18:14:41, Brian Katz wrote: >- > I have had some concerns about the playing strength of the new Fritz 7 engine >in comparison to Fritz 6e or Deep Fritz. BUT....................... > Here is a sample Fritz 7 win against Grandmaster Mark Hebden (FIDE 2558)played >on ICC on 1/10/02 at a 5/12 time control. > > In my opinion, this game was quite impressive. > > I used Fritz 7 under the computer sign on Deep-Katzparov. > > I was only using a Hewlett Packard 8370 Pavilion, 350 MHz Pentium II, 384 >SDRAM (upgraded from 64 SDRAM) on the Windows 98 operating system. > I had Fritz 7 set at the time control of 5/10, with the hash tables set at >32MB (which may be too high for the time control). I had to manually transfer >all moves. > Perhaps some of you out there will appreciate the strength of these programs. >When these programs lose a given game to some other program, we tend to forget >just how strong they really are. This game was only played using a 350 MHz!! > >Hope you enjoy it. > > >Deep-Katzparov (2894) - mhebden (2829) [E62] >ICC 5 12 Internet Chess Club, 10.01.2002 > >1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0-0 5.0-0 d6 6.c4 Nc6 7.Nc3 Rb8 8.h3 a6 9.e4 b5 >10.e5 Nd7 11.e6 fxe6 12.d5 exd5 13.cxd5 Na7 14.Nd4 Ne5 15.Nce2 Qe8 16.Nf4 Rf6 >17.Re1 Bd7 18.Nde6 c5 19.Nxc5 dxc5 20.Rxe5 Nc8 21.Ne6 Bxe6 22.dxe6 Nd6 23.Rxc5 >Kh8 24.Bd5 Qf8 25.Qe2 Bh6 26.f4 Rd8 27.Be3 Nf5 28.Bf2 g5 29.g4 Nd6 30.fxg5 Bxg5 >31.Bd4 Kg8 32.Rc6 Qh6 33.Bxf6 Bxf6 34.Rf1 Nc4 35.Bxc4 bxc4 36.Rxc4 Qxh3 37.Rf3 >Qh4 38.Kg2 Qg5 39.Rf5 Qg6 40.b4 Kg7 41.a3 Rd6 42.Rcc5 h6 43.Kh3 Qe8 44.g5 hxg5 >45.Rxg5+ Bxg5 46.Rxg5+ Kh6 47.Qe5 Rd3+ 48.Kg4 Black resigns 1-0 > >I would love to hear comments on the game or the use of only a 350 MHz >processor. What do you mean "only a 350 MHz"? Are you forgetting that just two short years ago, Hiarcs6 Defeated a Strong International Master at 40/2, running on a Pent MMX 200! That match was 40/2 and we all know computers are even stronger at shorter time controls such as the one you used above.
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