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Subject: Re: Has My Fritz been boozing it up? My Draw Against Fritz 7 PIII 500

Author: David Dory

Date: 00:46:50 02/21/03

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On February 20, 2003 at 12:47:20, Joshua Lee wrote:

>Hi, Normally Fritz would win every game but somehow i drew this time around.
>the game is 5 min Blitz and the hardware is a PIII 500 with 64MB for hashtables.
>
>Is Fritz sick or did i just get lucky or what? to be perfectly fair i have one
>major program on in the background a distributed cancer drug research program
>United devices but i can't imagine this really affecting play that much.

>Did i just do the impossible or is there a good explanation this was at around
>4am not exactly my peak hours. Any explaination would be appreciated.
>
>Thankyou

I've done some crunching for UD also, and my opinion is that crunching those
work packets in the background is more of a drawback to Fritz than you might
have thought.

Try running the same game through your computer with UD shut off, and see what a
difference it makes.

David



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