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Subject: Re: problems with Fritz 9 engine

Author: Mark Mason

Date: 12:18:59 10/30/05

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On October 30, 2005 at 13:37:59, S. Davius 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
>
>Thanks for your answer Mark. Actually, my handle on the playchess server is
>"swissmaster". I think you are probably right, but sometimes i lose against 1 to
>2 ghz computers, when mine is 2,66 ghz. Could it be a problem of RAM? Or maybe I
>don't use the correct hashsize (often about 90 mb)?
>Anyway, thx. See you maybe on the playchess server.


The advice I've always been given is that you don't need more than 64Mb hash for
blitz (and maybe even less), otherwise the engine has to search too big a space
each time, costing speed and time. For longer time controls you need bigger hash
sizes. If you run the "fritz mark" chessbenchmark in your GUI at different hash
sizes, it may be an idea to go with the hash size that gives the best result ?

Experts - please correct me if I'm wrong here.

Mark



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