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Subject: Re: Fritz5 missed a win against Chesstiger in the wmcc in paris

Author: Shaun Graham

Date: 22:31:30 07/31/98

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>Fritz5 using 131072Kbytes hash tables needed almost 30 minutes to find
>Qd2

This indeed must be an unusual position

>Junior5(16 bit version for fritz) needed 10 minutes and 40 seconds
>using 31000 Kbytes
>
>This is on pentium200MMX
>
>Genius3 needed 42 seconds to find Qd2 on a pentium100Mh with 15 Mbytes hash
>tables.

Interesting, and here i was thinking i neeeded to throw my genius 3 in the trash
:).
>
>I think the strong point of Fritz5 is positional understanding

I don't think fritz has very strong positional understanding built into it at
all.  I just think that less knowledge combined with much faster calculation, is
a more effective plan than building in a lot of chess knowledge such as Hiarcs
does.  Shirov has recently said that he thinks of himself as primarily a
calculator, and chess strategy seems to play less of a role.  Indeed i think
that Fritz is succeeding mostly because of its ability of rapid calculation.

>The weak point of fritz5 is the opening book.

Sometimes true, sometimes not :).

>In tactics it is sometimes weaker and sometimes stronger than other programs
>

Definitely true!  but usually it has the tactics that others don't see.

>In the first round against Isichess Fritz5 with white came out of the opening
>book with negative evaluation with white.
>
>I believe fritz5's opening book has too many lines stupid humans played.
>It is better to delete lines Fritz5 does not like from the opening book of
>fritz5.
>
Of course :).  Myself i think the french should be banned from computer opening
books as black :).



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