Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 15:33:04 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. > > > > Christophe Hi! Not sure it was so. Fritz was very strong tactically but played a horrible endgame including a bug that made it play 2-3 times faster than the time control settings after move 40 (in 2h/40)It was also weaker than Genius positionally. Bertil
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