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Subject: Re: Fritz Demonstrates World Championship Level Play at Game/30!!!!!

Author: blass uri

Date: 00:01:01 07/06/99

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On July 05, 1999 at 21:27:35, Paulo Soares wrote:

>On July 05, 1999 at 14:04:25, KarinsDad wrote:
>
>>On July 04, 1999 at 12:20:33, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
>>>
>>>Hello KarinsDad,
>>>The number of processores Fritz is playing on is pure speculation.
>>
>>I decided to look it up. From the Siemens press release page:
>>
>>http://www.siemens.de/computer/news/index.htm
>>
>>http://194.121.239.192/cgi-bin/db4web_c.exe/db/pressedb/icp_user/en/pm_einzeln.d4w?pm_id=552
>>
>>"To really make the most of its strengths Fritz needs a powerful computer:
>>processor performance, RAM, high-speed hard disks – that's what matters. And
>>that's precisely where the most powerful NT Server from Siemens has a lot to
>>offer. The Primergy 870 that will take on Anand will incorporate four of the
>>fastest Pentium III-Xeon processors available then. Distributing the arithmetic
>>functions amongst a number of processors makes Fritz much, much faster."
>>
>>So, it looks like it is using 4 processors.
>>
>>KarinsDad :)
>
>In http://www.chessbase.com/News/newsframe.htm is writed this:
>"The current version of Fritz calculates one million positions a second"
>This is not so much, because in my PII-300, Fritz5.32 runs between
>200.000 and 400.000 NPS.
>
>Paulo Soares, from Brazil

It is the same as in WCCC
It is Fritz6 and not Fritz5.32 and Fritz6 calculates less nodes per second on
the same hardware.

Uri



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