Fritz 8: Chess program

February 22, 2006 4:54 AM

Does anyone know how to juice up the chess program Fritz 8? I would like to tweak it to its maximum capabilities. What are the best settings?
posted by JackO23 to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (4 answers total)

Best answer: The easiest thing you can do is increase the hash table size as much as you can. That will allow the chess engine to use its previous work as much as possible rather than calculating things twice.

The second easiest thing you can do is to buy more RAM so that you can increase the hash table size even more.

The third would be to get a faster computer.
posted by dfan at 7:03 AM on February 22, 2006

Just curious, because I read the question completely differently than dfan (not that I have an answer): do you mean "how do I make it faster", or "how do I make it harder to beat"?
posted by mendel at 8:13 AM on February 22, 2006

Response by poster: What I would like to do is make it harder to beat.

My computer specs: 1.48 GHz with 224 MB of RAM.

I set the hash table size to 120. Do you think that is enough?

Thank you.
posted by JackO23 at 9:42 AM on February 22, 2006

Best answer: Enough for what? Fritz is very strong with a 120MB hash table. If you increase it to 192MB it will be even stronger.
posted by dfan at 10:15 AM on February 22, 2006