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Subject: Re: SSDF Tiger12.0-Fritz5.32 19-21

Author: James Robertson

Date: 11:25:14 12/29/99

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On December 29, 1999 at 10:05:39, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>On December 29, 1999 at 08:10:17, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>its exactly what i had after 20 games: 50%.
>>
>>fritz6 gets less points vs. tiger.
>>
>>i would not say that "the old champ" is alive.
>>if you count all results together you will see that tiger
>>is better overall.
>>
>>50% against fritz5.32 is not bad.
>>fritz5.32 is not that good against other programs as tiger is.
>>
>>play with fritz6 and you will see yourself.
>>so we have same results :-))) rarely ! but it happens.
>
>Hello Thorsten,
>
>My testing (about 40 G/60 games against a couple of top programs -- Hiarcs 7.32
>and Nimzo 7.32, on two computers, one PII-400, the other Celeron-400) indicate
>that Fritz 6 generic (not the test vers. 6.66) is STRONGER than Fritz 5.32.
>Apart from this small number of games on two computers, I have conducted a
>series of test games against a variety of other programs at shorter time
>controls.  All the tests, except the very short controls (G/5 and less) confirm
>my findings.  On top of all that, my own subjective, non-quantifiable,
>impression is that Fritz 6 (generic) is stronger by 20-30 ELO points than Fritz
>5.32.
>
>Have a Happy New 2000.
>
>*** Djordje

Hmm. In a recent tournament I completed, Insomniac scored:
Insomniac 0.62 - Fritz 5.32     1.5 - 6.5
Insomniac 0.62 - Fritz 6        4 - 4

Other tournaments I have run had a similar result, although not so extreme.
Fritz 6 seems to do better against Crafty and several other programs too.

James



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