Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 08:40:29 02/04/99
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On February 04, 1999 at 10:49:56, robert flint wrote: >i have played hiarcs7 against all my programs and it is god!!! even threw >windows with 128kb of ram is smashed rebel10 with 64 megs it is an awesome >player. i think the reason that hiarcs is so strong is that its understand of >the game is far far superior to that of its rivals!! i do have a 450MHZ cpu so >im sure that this is of some help but in any case i think there is no program >even close to its strength. though chessmaster 6000 is a close second!! people >do not give this program enough mention! maybe because not autoplayer 232 is >possible for testing but let me tell you it is stronger than most of the >commercial player especially in tactical games!!i have some games i will be >posting soon!!!!! I would be careful with you statement, "hiarcs7 is god!!!!!", it is going a little overboard. As for CM 6000 being "stronger than most of the commercial player especially in tactical games!! is also an overstatement. I have CM 6000 and I have played against Fritz 5, and I don't think that CM 6000 is tactical stronger than Fritz 5, IMHO I would say that Fritz 5 is better than CM 6000 in "tactical games". Of course, this depends how you interpret it, or better, what is your perception of "tactical game" to be. All top chess engines are good at solving chess tactical problems, some may solve faster than others, yet given enough time, they all can solve. The key is to get to the winning position in which the chess engine is able to find and play the combination. Quoting Spielmann about Alekhine, "I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough, but where he gets his attacking chances from and how he infuses life into the very opening - that is beyond me." Not all chess engines see and give the same evaluation to the same chess position. Some engines are very strong in open positions (no center pawns), others good in semi-open games, and others in semi-closed games. I won't go in detail of what engines play well in what type of positions, perhaps this is a good little exercise for you to research.
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