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Subject: Re: Interesting Fritz 1 on a Celeron 433 Mhz search up to depth 13 !

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 04:06:18 04/30/02

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On April 30, 2002 at 06:42:55, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 30, 2002 at 02:48:17, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>
>>On April 29, 2002 at 23:55:11, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On April 29, 2002 at 21:28:21, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>Interesting Fritz 1 on a Celeron 433 Mhz search up to depth 13, but Comet B42 on
>>>>the same Celeron 433 Mhz can only search up to depth 12. This is when I set it
>>>>up to game in 30 minutes. Of course that Comet B42 is about 350 Elo points
>>>>higher than Fritz 1, but Comet B42 could be optimized to search higher than 12.
>>>>
>>>>Pichard.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Where have you seen that Comet is 350 elo points higher than Fritz 1.0???
>>
>>That's certainly overestimated. I 'd expect Fritz1 still being a tough opponent.
>>
>>Uli
>
>I do not know.
>
>I guess that Fritz1 was never tested on the new hardware
>and it is possible that some bug that is relevant only at slower
>time control than tournament time control on 386 prevents
>it to play well.
>
>I cannot know based on the data if the claim that
>Comet is 350 elo better than Fritz1 is correct or not correct
>because we cannot make conclusions based on the rating
>of Fritz1 on slow hardware.
>
>I know that programs may have bugs at long time control
>if they are not designed for it.
>
>One possible problem is that the order of moves can be wrong
>at long time control because the program gives score to moves
>based on some assumptions that are simply wrong
>at long time control.
>
>Uri

I also think, that Fritz1 can be beaten by many of today's amateurs. However, a
difference of 350 ELO means that Fritz1 would score essentially 0 % ?

I can't believe this. After all, an amateur has first to survive the tactics of
the middle game.

Uli




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