Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:21:55 02/26/03
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On February 26, 2003 at 18:06:21, James T. Walker wrote: >On February 26, 2003 at 16:56:54, John Wentworth2 wrote: > >>On February 26, 2003 at 16:28:41, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>Just for fun I tried the Mephisto Risc (1MB) dedicated machine which was a world >>>champion around 1991 against Fritz 8. The Mephisto was playing at 40/2hours >>>while Fritz 8 played at G/5min. Some info: The Mephisto searches about 3-4K/nps >>>and is currently rated about 2100 on the SSDF list. When new it was considered >>>to be rated much higher. Not sure but I think Ed S. was the programmer. Here >>>are the 2 games. >>> >>>[Event "Blitz:5'"] >>>[Site "?"] >>>[Date "2003.02.26"] >>>[Round "1"] >>>[White "Mephisto (40/2hrs)"] >>>[Black "Fritz 8"] >>>[Result "0-1"] >>>[ECO "B63"] >>>[PlyCount "92"] >>> >>>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 Be7 8. >>>O-O-O O-O 9. Nb3 a6 10. h4 a5 11. Bxf6 Bxf6 12. Qxd6 Qxd6 13. Rxd6 a4 14. Na1 >>>Be5 15. Rd1 a3 16. Rh3 f5 17. exf5 Rxf5 18. bxa3 Rxf2 19. Kb2 Ra4 20. Nb3 Raf4 >>>21. Rh1 Ne7 22. Rd8+ Rf8 23. Rxf8+ Rxf8 24. Bc4 b5 25. Bxb5 Nd5 26. Rh3 Nxc3 >>>27. Rxc3 Bb7 28. Nc5 Bxg2 29. Kb3 Bd5+ 30. Rc4 Bd6 31. Nd3 Rf5 32. Nb4 Bxc4+ >>>33. Bxc4 Kf7 34. Nc6 Bg3 35. Nd8+ Kf6 36. Nxe6 Bxh4 37. Nd4 Re5 38. Bd3 Bf2 39. >>>Nf3 Re7 40. Nd2 Be1 41. Ne4+ Ke5 42. Ng5 h5 43. Nf3+ Kf4 44. Nxe1 Rxe1 45. c4 >>>h4 46. Bg6 Resigns 0-1 >>> >>>[Event "Blitz:5'"] >>>[Site "?"] >>>[Date "2003.02.26"] >>>[Round "2"] >>>[White "Fritz 8"] >>>[Black "Mephisto (40/2hrs)"] >>>[Result "1-0"] >>>[ECO "B12"] >>>[PlyCount "33"] >>> >>>1. d4 c6 2. e4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 c5 6. Be3 Qb6 7. Nc3 Qxb2 8. Nb5 >>>Na6 9. dxc5 Nb4 10. O-O Nxc2 11. Qd2 Rc8 12. Nxa7 Rc7 13. Qa5 Rd7 14. Bb5 Nxa1 >>>15. Bd4 Qxb5 16. Nxb5 Be7 Resigns 1-0 >> >> >>I wonder over a period of blitz games if the Mephisto would do better. The >>reason I say this is because I recently played a 2' blitz match between Crafty >>19.01 on a 1.2Ghz PC and Fritz 6 on an old 166Mhz PC. Fritz 6 on the slow >>machine won by a large margin, something like 46.5 - 14.5 but when the time >>control was longer, Crafty played much better. >> >>My point is that to have a faster time control to counter 1 machine being so >>much faster. This theory may be totally flawed but since you gave such a longer >>time to Mephisto, Fritz 8 just sat there and looked much further and anticipated >>what the Mephisto would do. If the time control had been faster it wouldn't of >>been able to look quite as far. Just a theory though > >Hello John, >I was only doing this as a curiosity. I was not trying to make them "equal". >Many people here blast "Blitz" as not really chess and other remarks. Point is >nobody would have said that Mephisto Risc could not play real chess at 40/2 but >it's not nearly as good as Fritz 8 on a XP2400+ at G/5min. I think that Fritz8 also cannot play chess at 120/40 if you look from the point of view of people in 2014. Uri
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