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Subject: Re: Position analysis - Fritz 8 took 8 minutes to find move!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:47:25 09/02/03

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On September 02, 2003 at 10:36:55, Richard Patterson wrote:

>In this position Fritz 8 analysis took 8 minutes to find RD1-G1 but the move
>score was not much different than the other two best moves QA7-C7 or RD1xD7.

If you want Fritz or any other program to find the best move as fast as possible
than you should not give it more than one option.

If it has to calculate second best and third best then it has to do more work
and becomes slower.

Another point is that without knowing your hardware and the number of nodes per
second comparison with other programs is meaningless.



 The
>analysis was not much different 22 minutes with RD1-G1 still leading by .70 over
>the other moves. The analysis at 30+ minutes gave RD1-G1 (+30.38) a decisive
>advantage over moves #2 QA7-C7 (+16.06) and #3 RD1xD7 (+15.34).
>
>How does your favorite chess program see this position.

I guess that chessmaster can see forced mates.
Fritz is not the best program in finding forced mate and your positions are
unimportant for testing playing strength.



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