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Subject: Re: Fritz 7 vs. Grandmaster Mark Hebden (2558 FIDE Rating) on ICC at 5/12.

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 01:41:40 01/12/02

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On January 11, 2002 at 19:18:33, James Doby  wrote:

>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.

I think Dean Hergot was a strong IM when he played Hiarcs. I think he was pretty
rusty at the time......and the game was played in some kind of noisy shoppinp
mall. But I may remember wrong about both Hergot and the match!

Torstein



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