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Subject: Re: Fritz Had an easy way, Centaur and Ikarus are weak programs !!!

Author: Brett Clark

Date: 11:51:58 06/19/99

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On June 19, 1999 at 11:11:29, blass uri wrote:

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>I do not understand what is the reson that there is a big difference between
>engine-engine games and games with 2 computers.
>
>I can understand that there is a difference because in engine-engine games the
>programs cannot use the permanent brain but I do not expect a difference of more
>than 50 elo rating and the results that I saw suggest a difference of more than
>50 points rating.
>

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Uri, I think that the engine vs. engine results might favor Hiarcs because most
people don't have enough RAM for the hash tables.  On a 400 Mhz machine, Fritz
needs 96 MB RAM to play at full strength.  At 500 Mhz, it needs 120 MB.  Hiarcs
seems to require much less for hash tables.  Also, maybe Fritz is more efficient
in time management, and thinking on opponent's time, but this is only
speculation.



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