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

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 04:02:18 09/16/02

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On September 16, 2002 at 06:59:26, Terry McCracken wrote:

>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

N.B. When I say a single processor, I mean ChessBase said it would outperform
Fritz 7 on a single processor.



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