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

Author: blass uri

Date: 02:47:51 08/01/98

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On August 01, 1998 at 03:14:50, Hans Christian Lykke wrote:

>On July 31, 1998 at 22:51:18, blass uri wrote:
>
>>position:
>>2r2rk1/2q2pP1/p1b1pp2/1p6/4P3/2Np3P/PPP3Q1/1K4R1
>>white to move.
>>
>>Fritz5 arrived to a winning position because it has a better positional
>>understanding.
>>
>>Fritz5 played 25.cxd3 and made a draw when 25.Qd2 is winning for white
>>
>>Fritz5 using 131072Kbytes hash tables needed almost 30 minutes to find
>>Qd2
>>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.
>>
>>I think the strong point of Fritz5 is positional understanding
>>The weak point of fritz5 is the opening book.
>>In tactics it is sometimes weaker and sometimes stronger than other programs
>>
>>In the first round against Isichess Fritz5 with white came out of the opening
>>book with negative evaluation with white.
>
>
>My Fritz5 Powerbooks ends with move 20,
>so  21. fxe5 should be the first move out of the book.
>But I don“t think it is.
>Maybe another book was used in Paris!
I think this another book is also a reason for fritz5's failure.
In the last round fritz5 lost against Junior because of the opening.

I have no powerbook and my book ends with move 20
but I checked the evaluation at moves 19,20,21 and they were negative.

Uri
>
>On my P200MMX 43MB hash with deepth 12/39
>fxe5 is only the 4.th best move.
>Here is the evaluation for the 4 moves
>
>1. Nc2	-0.03
>2. Nf3	-0.31
>3. Ne2	-0.34
>4. fxe5	-0.41
>
>Venlig hilsen
>
>Hans Christian Lykke
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Uri



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