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Subject: Re: Fritz Chess Benchmark - guidance please !

Author: Mark Mason

Date: 23:27:50 10/30/05

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On October 30, 2005 at 15:56:23, m.d.hurd wrote:

>On October 30, 2005 at 15:27:49, Mark Mason wrote:
>
>>Now that the Fritzmark or "Fritz Chess Benchmark" has been explained better in
>>the Fritz 9 GUI as "Performance relative to P3 1.0 GHz (480 kn/s)",I have a
>>question that I would appreciate some guidance on from any experts.
>>
>>If I tweak a particular engine parameter and find that this tweak alone (all
>>other things eg hash size being equal) results in a significantly higher Fritz
>>Benchmark rating, does it follow that - for MY HARDWARE - then this setting will
>>result in a stronger performance against other engines ?
>>
>>Experimentation on the playchess server seems to support this, but I would be
>>grateful if someone could confirm whether there is any valid basis to this ?
>>
>>Many thanks,
>>
>>Mark


Mark
>
>Hello Mark
>
>If you are refering to the Fritz Chess Benchmark.exe Program then no. You can
>run this program directly without going through Fritz by clicking on it so I
>dont think it uses any engine as such other than what is built into the
>benchmark.exe program. Therefore 'tweaking' Fritz 9 will make no difference to
>your result.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Regards
>
>Mike


Hi Mike,

I understand your pont - thanks. However, there is a particular engine tweak
that definitely increases my Fritzmark, even running on the same hardware, which
 prompted the question - what does the increase in Fritzmark score under these
circumstances actually tell me ?

Thanks,






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