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Subject: Re: fritz5:Junior5 5.5:4.5 after the first 10 games of the nunn match

Author: Mark Young

Date: 07:14:09 07/29/98

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On July 29, 1998 at 04:16:08, blass uri wrote:

>I began to do a nunn match with 30 minutes per game+30 seconds per move
>and Fritz5 has better results than with 10 minutes per game+10 seconds per
>move(in that match after 10 games the result was 7.5:2.5 for Junior5 and now the
>result is 5.5:4.5 for fritz5).
>I gave both programs 59968 Kbytes hash tables
>in the 30 minutes+30 seconds match when I gave both programs almost 12000 Kbytes
>hash tables in the 10 minutes+10 seconds match.
>.
>
>Fritz5 has a weakness in seeing the position
>
>It is the reason it lost to stobor in the World micro computer championship.
>It traded queens and only after it did it it saw stobor's position is better and
>it is not a question of time(even if I give fritz5 30 minutes it will do the
>same mistake).
>
>Something like this cannot happen to Junior.
>This is the reason I expected Junior to earn more from time than fritz
>but it did not happen.
>
>Uri

I have found the same thing with fritz 5. When people say it plays weak moves I
have to wonder if they were playing it at 5 sec. a move. I found that fritz 5
gains rapidly in strength as it has more time. Much more so then other programs.
Except for maybe CM 5500 or 5000.



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