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Subject: Re: Anand vs. Fritz 5 1.5 - 0.5

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:04:22 06/21/98

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On June 20, 1998 at 15:48:02, Moritz Berger wrote:

>Apparently (there's no result on the official web site yet) Fritz lost the 1st
>game with white against Anand. The 2nd game was drawn. Time control was game/25.
>
>Anand was completely in charge of the board all the time, Fritz had no change
>whatsoever. The draw in the 2nd game has to be considered a good result for
>Fritz.
>
>For more details see
>http://194.109.72.230/chessclassic/
>
>Moritz

If anand played on game 2 (rook ending with pawn up) he probably would
win it against fritz.

Programs are quite bad in rook endings.

Nice to see some games of a program versus a grandmaster.
Too bad it's such a fast time control.

Yet we see that even at fast hardware programs don't make a chance in
rapid chess. Second game fritz had what few years ago was told to be
a position where fritz plays well in: isolated pawn in centre. further there
were as a result of this 1 open file and 2 half open files.

Really great play of Anand. I wouldn't advise amateurs to try that against
a program. Way too tactical.

Does the engine search parallel, can chessbase confirm this here?
Because of course fritz is parallel (if you have more than 1 threat OS does
this),
but it's hard to believe that the engine is parallel searching:

chessbase homepage reports that machine has 2 cpu's and program
totally 512 mb hash, and every processor gives fritz 256 mb hash. Vague.
Weird that it doesn't use a shared hashtable, so it probably isn't parallel
searching, but something like running 2 engines at the same time;
copying the althofer experiment?

Would be interesting though, i'm just trying to get my own program parallel,
and i don't mean the interface, but the engine.

Greetings,
Vincent



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