Author: Mark Young
Date: 20:56:57 11/06/98
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On November 06, 1998 at 20:22:44, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >Latest results: > >PII-400 256MB, 40/40 > > H7b J5 R10 F5 TOTAL % Played >Hiarcs 7b --- 4 7 8 19 63.3 30 >Junior 5 6 --- 5 4.5 15.5 51.7 30 >Rebel 10 3 5 --- 5.5 13.5 45.0 30 >Fritz 5 2 5.5 4.5 --- 12 40.0 30 > >Early next week Mchess 8 will start playing. I need a few days to do other kinds >of testing on the beta of Hiarcs 7. > >Quick notes about Hiarcs 7b (it's 2 am and I feel lazy): > >- Hiarcs 7 defeated Rebel 10 in the endings, the weaker side of Rebel and one of >the strongest of Hiarcs. The middlegame was even. I wonder just how weak Rebel 10 is in endgames, I heard the same thing about Fritz 5, but its endgames I have found are very strong. What positions and types of endgames do you base this on. Can you show us how Rebel 10 is weak in the end games over other programs. I don't have enough games to come to that conclusion about Rebel 10. Would Hiarc 7 being so strong in the endgame win playing the other side of the end game in its games with Rebel 10? > >- Fritz 5 simply didn't have a chance and was outplayed by H7b in all phases of >the game. Fritz drew 4 games, lost 6 and won none. This is a good sign for Hiarcs 7 to do this, but Fritz 5 out classed Junior 5 too, for the first 8 games in my match. > >- Junior 5 was the tough cookie for H7b. Until the very last game, H7b didn't >win one single game from J5 and I didn't think it could... I am finding Junior 5 very strong, it seems stronger then Fritz 5, but only a bit stronger.(after 21 games Junior 5 is only +1 over Fritz 5.} I find it hard to think that Hiarcs 7 can out class Fritz 5 so badly, and itself be so out classed by Junior 5. It can be very hard to get a good read on chess programs from a small sample. > >In my opinion, the weakest point of H7b is king safety. I know Mark is still >working on it, so the final version of Hiarcs 7 might be better in this regard. >Endgames are the best I have seen in a micro. H7 seems more selective and >quicker than H6, more solid and more knowledgeable. Overall, quite a bit >stronger than H6, which is already a great program, and in my opinion a very >firm candidate to #1. > >Tomorrow I will send the games to Steve and he will post them here. > >Enrique
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