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

Author: Joshua Lee

Date: 10:52:50 02/21/03

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By how much do you think it will effect Fritz? It said it's rating was 2726 and
i know anything in the background can slow stuff down but by how much....
was i playing more of a master in blitz than a GM?






On February 21, 2003 at 03:46:50, David Dory wrote:

>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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