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Subject: Re: BenchMarks,Ratins and up Grades?

Author: Brian Katz

Date: 07:31:58 02/03/02

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On February 03, 2002 at 07:59:28, Joseph Merolle wrote:

>Hay guys have you noticed that with each up grade your getting New Bench Marks
>and ratings? With the 7002, I hit a bench mark of 209 on my 300 mhz lap top 160
>ram. With 7006 Jan 7 version, I hit a bench high at 245 however my default
>standard ratings droped about 35 points. Now with the 7006 Jan 11 ratings I am
>back up and bench marks droped to 230. In my opinion we can exspect more up
>grades. I think the reason why the million dollar question of which is best cant
>be answered is because these programers dont know the answer themselves? I feel
>their strugleling to find the best mix between chess knowledge and speed and
>they have not found it. At least not a combination that will put fritz 7 at the
>top of the SSDF? For this reason I think Fritz conviently avoided the SSDF. Now
>their in desperate need to find this winning combination and are throwing out
>different versions like frisbees!!!!! Well all I can say is I hope they can find
>it soon so then we can say all is well that ends well on the next ssdf!!!!
>My question is am I on to something with my theory or do I have a great
>amagination of what is going on ? Thanks for some imput guys untill next time
>ratings, benchmarks, upgrades O my!!!!
>
>Thanks Joseph Merolle

 It would be nice if each  upgraded engine would remain in the engine folder and
each could be paired against one another in an engine tournament on one PC.
Then we might get a better and easier comparison between upgrades.
 Such was the case with the earlier Fritz 6 upgrade, where after the upgrade it
left you with the non upgraded engine renamed as Fritz 6 Old and the upgraded
engine as Fritz 6. Then they had the newer upgrades which would just upgrade the
present engine and that was it.
 The Fritz 6 upgrades were clearly stronger than Fritz 6 Old. Unless the
earliest upgrade strengthened the new engine and weakened the original version
renamed to Fritz 6 Old, to make the upgrade appear to be stronger than it really
was.
The same is true for Fritz 7 in that you can't play 2 or more versions of the
Fritz 7 engine against one another automatically, using only one computer. Not
counting the (Non MMX) and Fritz 7 which are both recognized at the same time by
the Fritz 6 and the Deep Fritz programs.
I guess you could use 2 different interfaces with two different engines folders
placed in separate chessbase folders placed on 2 different drives. Or one Fritz
7 program placed in Program Files\Chessbase\ and the other with a different path
in Whatever you name the folder for the Chessbase and Fritz 7 folders and
engines to be in, and then play them against one another manually.
Would this be possible without  screwing anything up for the Chessbase programs?

Opinions would be welcomed
Brian




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