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Subject: Re: Why Fritz and Junior not among Top Computers at ICC?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 19:37:17 10/20/02

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On October 20, 2002 at 17:55:55, Bob Durrett wrote:

>Why Fritz and Junior not among Top computers at ICC?
>
>I just looked at "best computers" at the Internet Chess Club [ICC] and noted
>that the top blitz programs are NOT Fritz and Junior.
>
>{{Note:  at ICC, "best" is a command.}}
>
>
>Why is that?  Maybe Kramnik was playing against the wrong engine?

hmm, that is what a lot of people were saying after 4 games, but honestly i
don't think there is any real difference between top engines in play vs humans.
they will all "take the money and run" whenever a human blunders, which happens
frequently :-)

as to your question, here are the finger notes of a DF account which explain
that quite well:

fi aegis

Statistics for Aegis(C)         On for: 1:58     Idle:    0
Aegis is currently involved in a match against giant1-c(C).

          rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Bullet      2936  [8]   536   284   311  1131   2942 (23-Apr-2001)
Blitz       3031       3250  1089  1590  5929   3230 (13-Oct-2002)
Standard    2845        688   380   560  1628   2872 (02-Oct-2002)

 1: Deep Fritz 7
 2: Dual Xeon 2.2 Ghz | 1 GB RDRAM
 3: 3|4|5|6 man EGTB's
 4: Windows 2000
 5: Accepting 5 5 r
 6: Play as many games as you want!
 7: Deep Fritz has its good days.. and its bad days...
 8: Using FritzOn to keep autoplayer from crashing and to relay engine chatter.
If you're interested, contact Origin22.
 9: Look at the rating difference between crafty and scrappy.. with scrappy
running on less powerful hardware than crafty.. just shows how inflated
!computer comp ratings are...
10: I have seen a massive growth in !computer comps on ICC. I think this is
shameful. I remember the good days when there were more comps playing everyone
than !computer comps. Like ICC NEEDS more of them!

aloha
  martin



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