Author: Bernard Nahrmann
Date: 02:13:44 11/05/98
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On November 04, 1998 at 23:53:26, Komputer Korner wrote: >On November 03, 1998 at 12:19:44, Freddie wrote: > >>Can someone please explain to me why junior 5 uses so much more of my system >>resources than Fritz 5? On a 400 Pentium with 128 MB of RAM and Windows 98, I >>find myself sometimes down to as low as 45% system resources left compared to >>around 70% when I'm using Fritz 5. Usually there is always one other >>application running as well. Shouldn't junior be able to utilize system >>resources more efficiently than Fritz? >> >>Secondly, do you get a stronger game if you combine 2 engines like Fritz and >>Hiarcs; one for tactics and the other for positional play or is it better to >>stick with one engine when running matches between different chess software? >> >>Thank you, >>Freddie. > >While Windows is supposed to be a 32 bit OS, is it really? It is more of a >hybrid and a bad hybrid at that. In fact I would say that WIN9x was the worst OS >ever sold or given away. I would say that 16 bit programs fit in better with >Windows than 32 bit programs. >I use WIN NT 4 whenever I can and since Fritz 5 and Junior 5 both run in WIN NT >4 I have no need to run WIN9X for those programs. > >As for the 2 engines in automatic play, you should see a small increase in >strength of play, but nothing major. >If you have both, you might as well use them. >-- >Komputer Korner I too like NT 4.0 much more than Win9x. But it is very bad, that you can´t use in NT 4.0 the "old" 16Bit-Engines in the 32Bit-programs Chessbase 7.0 and Junior 5.0, because thunks don´t work in NT 4.0. Bernard
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