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

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 07:18:56 09/16/02

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On September 16, 2002 at 09:01:53, Brian Katz wrote:

>On September 16, 2002 at 07:30:20, mike schoonover wrote:
>
>>brian,
>>there where posts either here or on winboard forum concerning
>>fritz weak play after upgrade.this was relativly recent.
>>try posting your question on wb forum.as i recall
>>there was a fix or something.
>>sorry i cant remember more.
>>mike
>
>Thank you for the reply.
>After reading one of the earlier posts on the possibility that the most recent
>Fritz 7 upgrade may have caused engine strength reduction, and noticing poor
>play myself, I uninstalled Deep-Fritz 7. I had multiple copies of the previous
>upgraded Fritz 7 engines. However, it was Deep-Fritz 7 that I had noticed the
>poor play with. So, when I completely uninstalled Deep-Fritz 7, I let the
>uninstall take the Deep-Fritz 7 engine with it. When I reinstalled the
>Deep-Fritz 7 program, I then had a brand new Deep-Fritz 7 engine and program
>interface. I chose not to try the newest upgrade, yet I still had the result
>that I included with my recent post. A HORRIBLE game.
>I can't blame the poor play on the upgrade, when I have a freshly installed
>Deep-Fritz 7 engine and program.
>In engine tournaments run on my single Processor PC   using only one computer,
>Fritz 7 was out performing Deep-Fritz 7 or coming out even in various time
>controls. This was before I tried any upgrades after first installing the DF7
>program which I received 2 weeks ago.
>
>It appears that we are being lied to when they say that DF7 is stronger than F7
>even if only a single processor is used.
>If you remember, the same thing was said of Deep Fritz as compared to Fritz 6.
>( "Increased endgame knowledge and increased positional play") I find it odd
>that they would use the same exact wording for this advertisement, yet I still
>bought it, pardon the pun.
>Perhaps it should be called Deep-Putz 7.
>All replies welcome and looked forward to.
>Regards
>Brian

Deep Putz! ROTFL!

Commercial firms are full of hype! Yes there has been modifications to Deep
Fritz 7 but they really may only help on a multi-processor system.

Sure "knowledge" was added but it in reality may hurt on a single processor
system.

One would think not, and ChessBase didn't exactly lie, but went with more
knowledge added, but without proof most likely it would play better than
Fritz 7 on one CPU.

Terry



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