Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 08:41:32 04/30/02
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On April 30, 2002 at 11:28:19, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 30, 2002 at 07:01:19, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > >>On April 30, 2002 at 06:16:06, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On April 30, 2002 at 00:39:55, Uri Blass 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. >> >> >>IMHO, even more interesting is Fritz-2. It reaches even higher depths than >>Fritz-1. I think, that Fritz-2 will also easily beat Fritz-7 regarding depths. >>In a match however, the old Fritzes are without chances against Fritz-7; there >>was too much knowledge missing. E.g. I'm sure that implementation of the simple >>square rule in pawn endings had to wait for Fritz-3. >> >>Fritz-2 was also the tactical wizard those days. Therefore, I guess that Fritz-2 >>would still be a challenge for many amateurs of today. > > > >The tactical wizard of those days was Chess Genius. Fritz2 and Fritz3 were >behind. > Yes, I can recall Chess Genius humbling all the other programs back then (not to mention humbling weak humans like me!). IIRC, the only program that could beat it more than very rarely was MChess.
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