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Subject: Re: Very Poor Play by Deep Fritz 7 on a single processor ??

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 03:59:26 09/16/02

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On September 16, 2002 at 06:05:13, Jouni Uski wrote:

>On September 16, 2002 at 04:49:16, Brian Katz wrote:
>
>>On September 16, 2002 at 04:10:15, Harald Faber wrote:
>>
>>>On September 16, 2002 at 03:55:47, Brian Katz wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is is my imagination, or does Deep-Fritz 7 on a single processor play horribly?I
>>>>have found Deep Fritz 7 leaving it's King in the center and getting crushed,
>>>>where as I was getting execllent results with the Fritz 7 engine after the first
>>>>few engine upgrades.
>>>>Perhaps it is just the Deep Fritz 7 opening book which is the problem, I really
>>>>do not know. What I do know is, that the results and style of play seem to be
>>>>quite different.
>>>>Has anyone had similar results?
>>>>Regards
>>>>Brian
>>>
>>>Would you please provide some more info on your impressions:
>>>- Used PC/PCs
>>>- Used Time Control
>>>- Number of games
>>>- Names of opponents
>>>
>>>I have the chance to test DF7 for some days until I have to give it back, and
>>>the results on tournament time control I have so far from DF7 on Celeron@1539MHz
>>>vs. GambitTiger 2 aggressive on XP1800+ make me nervous for the forecoming
>>>tournament in Thueringen in november this year.
>>>(I will operate Tiger)
>>
>>I am sorry that I did not provide anymore information above.
>>I am only using 350 MHz Hewlett Packard Pentium ll with 384 SDRam. Nalimov
>>endgame turbo ( 4 discs) also additional downloaded Tablebases from the Hyatt
>>FTP site.
>>
>
>This is very slow PC, when Fritz is tested at 1-2 Ghz and 2-8 prosessors! Note
>also, that in SSDF Fritz7 is best in Athlon, when in AMD 450 it's relatively
>weaker.
>
>Jouni

Regardless, Deep Fritz 7 should not foul up on a machine 2.3x slower and is
advertised to be better on a single processor...regardless of clock speed.

So I don't buy that.

If it's making stupid moves relative to other programmes running at the same
speed, the problem lies within Deep Fritz 7.

Terry



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