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Subject: Re: fritz missed a win against chesstiger in enrique's games

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:23:46 01/02/99

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On January 02, 1999 at 14:15:47, Mark Young wrote:

>On January 02, 1999 at 11:33:17, blass uri wrote:
>
>>
>>On January 02, 1999 at 11:13:00, Dan Kiski wrote:
>>
>>>On January 02, 1999 at 03:57:37, blass uri wrote:
>>>
>>>>Fritz5 could win game 113 by 50.Ndc6
>>>>My Fritz5.16 finds this move in 59 seconds on pentium200MMX
>>>>
>>>>In the game Fritz5 had 81 seconds to use its permanent brain and to find the
>>>>move on pentium400 but it could not find the move.
>>>>
>>>>Fritz5 used the permanent brain in this game(otherwise it would not play in 0
>>>>seconds)
>>>>
>>>>I know that Fritz5 is optimized for pentium200MMX but I think it does not say
>>>>that Fritz5 is slower on pentium400 but only that it does not earn speed from
>>>>pentium400 like other programs.
>>>>
>>>>The reason for this strange behavior of Fritz5 can be one of the following:
>>>>
>>>>1)Fritz5 was slowed down by another application or a virus
>>>>
>>>>I think that programs should tell the user if something like this happens.
>>>>They can feel it if there is something strange in the number of nodes per second
>>>>
>>>>2)I have a different version of Fritz5(16 bit)
>>>>
>>>>3)Fritz5 got tired during the game because of a bug in Fritz5(It may be the
>>>>case)
>>>>
>>>>I found that there were cases when Fritz5 was slowed down for some moves during
>>>>a game against another engine.
>>>>In most of the games it does not happen but it can happen.
>>>>
>>>>4)I used different hash tables(I do not think that this is the case because I
>>>>tried different hash tables and it did not change the result of finding Ndc6 in
>>>>1 minute)
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>Please post the fen or state which game this was.
>>1n1N4/r1p5/5k2/3nN3/pp1P1P2/P5P1/3R1K1P/8 w - - 0 1
>>The last move of black was b5-b4
>>Fritz5 replied 50.Ra2 instead of Ndc6
>>
>>The  game can be found in Enrique's games (this is the 3th game between Fritz5
>>and tiger 11.7.5)
>
>I ran the position on my P II 400 256MB ram. I set the hash at 120 mb.
>
>5.03, Found Ndc6 45 sec.
>
>5.16 in Junior 5, Found Ndc6 in 30 sec.
>
>I let the position run 3 plus mins, it stayed with Ndc6.
>
>Did the move have a time stamp and ply number, that would help clear things up.
>
>>
>>Uri


This appears to be a gross tactical blunder that might suggest something
is wrong with the hardware or the version of fritz being used.  On my notebook
crafty says this is .55 after a second or so.  While Nc6 is almost +3.0...




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