13 Feb 07
Originally posted by z00tMy rating went drastically down as well, from 2600 down to the 2400's for a while. I think everyone is upgrading their PC's and there are a lot of quads now. Rybka 2.3 has also been released. When I obtained tablebases and a RAM upgrade to my PC, my rating jumped to 2707, (probably a result of being able to use more hash). Tablebases are a must now, and you have to have good settings.A good openings-book also helps. Try tweaking the default book a little.
I could not sleep well the other night as Fritz 10 (single processor) took a thumping in the Playchess engine room losing about 70 points from 2520. How can I stop this slide? Even some unknown upstart named loop “ate” my baby.
Whilst I can assume that there have been increases in multi-processor systems/dual cores, without buying new hardware how can I claw back some points? On the subject of Fritz 10 are there any updates other than the gui one?