beginchess.com » Engines http://beginchess.com Chess for Beginners Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:28:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Dumbing Down Fritz http://beginchess.com/2010/01/01/dumbing-down-fritz/ http://beginchess.com/2010/01/01/dumbing-down-fritz/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:12:17 +0000 beginchess http://www.beginchess.com/?p=690 More >]]> I’m having issues with my Internet connectivity, so I’ve decided to play my standard game against a chess engine instead of playing my regularly scheduled standard game on ICC. While I have tried playing in sparring or friend mode, this type of play for me is not realistic enough. What I have done is to use an older Fritz engine, in this case Fritz 5.32, and I have reduced the number of ply depth and the use of an opening book. For my first game, I used the following settings: 1 ply depth, no book and engine Fritz 5.32. The engine did not blunder until move 27, and the blunder it made was very human-like. I would say that it played like at 1200-1300 USCF / 1450 – 1550 ICC human player.

I’ll continue to play around with the settings, and will post more about them as an update to this post.

Tests

Fritz 5.32 – 1 ply depth – no book – est. rating = 1200 – 1300

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