Author: Joe T. Pangilinan
Date: 14:03:51 11/17/98
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Fritz 5.32 The Fritz5.32 package is the 32Bit version of the well-known Fritz5. It supports long file names and smooth multitasking. Price: DM 98,- (around $60), upgrade from Fritz5 DM 59,- (around $40). Whats new? (first draft, more detailed description of 55 new features follows) Engines Configurable 32Bit engine by Frans Morsch (beats Fritz5 12.5 : 7.5 in 60' Nunn on 233MMX). 32Bit Engines Comet, Crafty, Doctor? 3.0 and EXchess included. Historic Fritz engines and opening books included (e.g. Hongkong). New mate engine with heuristic search. Opening book The quality of the games constituing the opening book is higher than in Fritz5.0. The book was brought theoretically up to date because more than a year has passed since the last publication. In tournament mode some lines are excluded from active play to improve practical results against humans and computers. Nevertheless the book retains its general character and is well suited for Comet, Crafty, Doctor and EXchess. Game minimum avoids the replay of long drawn lines from single games. Playing and fun Spy function for beginners. Human time bonus in Blitz and Fischer mode. Backgammon-style doubling in rated games. Configurable resigning. Analysis Improved correspondence analysis. Comparative multiengine analysis for full games. Next best move in Watch mode. Variation board on higher resolution screens. Lock analysis engine/goto lock position. Engine Research Operating System (EROS) The number of engines currently available for Fritz5.32 (thirteen including Junior5, Nimzo99 and Hiarcs6, not counting the different Crafties and EXchess') demand comfortable test and tournament possibilities. Fritz5.32 offers a complete set of such functions which constitute the Engine Research Operating System. You can Play matches and tournaments (with permanent brain on dual processor boards). Automatically maintain elo lists. Compare general analysis. Measure and compare solving times in test positions. Publish your research data: Paste test set results, elo lists and tournament tables into spread sheets like Excel. Engine tournaments generate vastly more interesting data than the traditional engine matches though they take longer. And they are much more fun. Fritz5.32 supports automatic round robin tournaments with cross table display. Enhanced User Interface New true type fonts. Material balance display in notation. Node speed display. Elapsed move time display. Scroll main line: every new variation/only new moves. Color coding of rising/falling evaluation in variation display. Clip analysis. Coloured variations in notation. Fast engine switch in watch mode. Truncate game/delete remaining moves. Delete all commentary/delete thinking time and evaluation commentary. Set annotation medals. Set annotations before moves. Improved engine loading and hash table configuration. Faster start up of program. Online registration. Engine logos. Enter machine name in user dialog for all test sets, engine matches, etc. New notation format (ChessBase7.0 style). Support of ChessBase 7.0 database text functions. Printing Print game notation in colour. Configure print header. Database functions Speed strongly improved by 32Bit ChessBase 7.0 access functions. Search for annotations. Unlimited copying of games. Comfortable appending of games to a database. Cross table display in the games list for all tournament types. EPD import. Elo management To organize proper tournaments and matches between engines, Fritz5.32 offers a full-fledged elo management to comfortably manage ranking lists. Nice side-effect: If you own a big clean database with unified name spellings and complete tournaments, you can use this for human ratings as well. A special iteration algorithm allows the calculation of historical ratings without relying on any existing data besides the game results. You could e.g. find out how strong Capablanca was in 1921 in relation to Alekhine and Lasker.
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