Author: Mark Mason
Date: 10:39:25 10/30/05
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On October 30, 2005 at 12:55:06, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 30, 2005 at 12:33:00, Mark Mason wrote: > >>What is your handle on the playchess server ? Maybe we could observe your >>games and give some views as to whether your results are simply that you are >>playing more powerful PC's which are outsearching you, or something else ? >> >>I play on playchess with Fritz 9, Fruit 2.2 etc but as I do not have fast >>hardware, I check out the opponent's hardware first before accepting a >>challenge, to try to get a match to make a more evengame. I am doing quite well >>on this basis with Fritz 9 (around 2500 most of the time.) >> >>However, my Fritz 9 will lose to Fritz5, 6 or 7 every time if my Intel Celeron >>2GHz is facing an AMD 3700x2 !!! >> >>Playchess is not a place to judge engines - it is a battle of harware >>supremacy!! >> >>Mark > >I think that you overestimate hardware. > >I predict that Fritz9 Celeron 2ghz is not going to lose against Fritz5 >regardless of hardware of Fritz5. > >The difference between Fritz9 and Fritz5 is more than 200 elo. >The difference in hardware between celeron 2 ghz and the best hardware that >Fritz5 can use is clearly smaller. > >Uri Uri, Your right I was exaggerating a bit to make the point to the other poster - although Fritz 7 & 8, and Shredder 7.04 & 8, do seem to be able to beat F9 (2.0 GHz Celeron) on a regular basis when on fast hardware. I get about 450 kn/s using F9, but often face 900 or 1000 kn/s from F8 users. Mark Mark
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