After completing a series of 30 tournament games with the newly released Fritz for Nintendo DS consoles, it emerged with a rating of 2047 ELO scaled as per the "old" SSDF listing. This meant that it is very close in strength to the Mephisto Roma 32 bit dedicated computer from the late 1980s.
Since Fritz for Nintendo DS needed a huge amount of post-purchase testing by me in order to find the correct level parameter settings to get it actually play proper chess
I decided to do some final testing of my average minute per move against a large number of programs, including Mephisto MMIV, MMV, Dallas 16 bit and Roma 32 bit via the excellent MESS emulation (which actually seem to run faster than the original machines did based on problem solving times...).Anyway, here is a nice game between Mephisto Roma 32 bit as white against Fritz Nintendo DS, with both programs configured for an average of one minute per move (level LE45 on the Roma 32 bit). It was a very exciting game, perhaps not surprising given that these two programs are very evenly matched. Fritz, however, was able to consolidate on a hard-earned superior position and finally pushed the pawn through in the closing stages of the endgame.
[Event "60 moves in 1 hour"]
[Site "Land of the Orange Dust Cloud"]
[Date "2009.09.23"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Mephisto Roma 32 bit"]
[Black "Fritz DS"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A67"]
[WhiteElo "2030"]
[BlackElo "2047"]
[Annotator ",Monsieur Plastique"]
[PlyCount "158"]
{512MB, Hiarcs10.ctg} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. e4
g6 7. f4 Bg7 8. Bb5+ Nfd7 9. Bd3 O-O 10. Nf3 Na6 11. O-O Rb8 12. f5 gxf5 13.
exf5 Nf6 14. Re1 Nb4 15. Bg5 Qb6 16. Bb1 Bd7 17. a3 Ng4 18. Qd2 c4+ 19. Be3
Nxe3 20. Qxe3 Bxc3 21. Qxb6 axb6 22. bxc3 Nxd5 23. Rd1 Bc6 24. Rd4 b5 25. Bc2
Nxc3 26. Rxd6 Bxf3 27. gxf3 Rbd8 28. Rb6 Rfe8 29. Be4 Nxe4 30. fxe4 Rxe4 31.
Rxb5 Rd7 32. Rab1 Rd3 33. Rxb7 Rxa3 34. f6 Rg4+ 35. Kh1 h5 36. Rc7 Rc3 37. Rf1
Rc2 38. Re1 Kh7 39. Rxf7+ Kg6 40. Rf8 Rf4 41. Rg1+ Kf5 42. Rh8 Rff2 43. Rxh5+
Kxf6 44. Rh6+ Kf5 45. Rh5+ Ke6 46. Rh6+ Ke5 47. Rh5+ Kf4 48. Rh4+ Ke3 49. Rg3+
Rf3 50. Rhg4 c3 51. Rxf3+ Kxf3 52. Rg3+ Ke2 53. h4 Rc1+ 54. Kh2 c2 55. Rg2+ Kd3
56. Rg3+ Kc4 57. Rg4+ Kb3 58. Rg3+ Kb2 59. Rg8 Rb1 60. Rb8+ Kc3 61. Rc8+ Kd2
62. Rd8+ Ke3 63. Re8+ Kf4 64. Rf8+ Kg4 65. Rg8+ Kxh4 66. Rc8 c1=Q 67. Rxc1 Rxc1
68. Kg2 Kg4 69. Kf2 Kf4 70. Ke2 Ke4 71. Kd2 Rc8 72. Ke2 Rc2+ 73. Kd1 Rf2 74.
Ke1 Ke3 75. Kd1 Kd3 76. Kc1 Rg2 77. Kb1 Kc3 78. Ka1 Kb3 79. Kb1 Rg1# 0-1