Author: Paul Richards
Date: 14:51:41 05/24/99
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On May 24, 1999 at 05:19:05, Eran wrote: >We know that Hiarcs and Rebel are the strongest positional playing programs and >Hiarcs 7 was the strongest program in SSDF. So I am wondering whether Hiarcs >7.32 (from ChessBase) is a stronger positional playing program than Rebel >against human, is it? Well there is only one way to find out. Mr. Schroder is finding out for his program. I see a thread where Hiarcs 7 finds a move that Rebel missed in the game, but it means little. The only way to know how Hiarcs plays against humans is for it to play (and it will, against Yermolinksky, right?). It's easy to analyze Rebel's game and say "Hiarcs found this move" but this does not mean that Hiarcs would have beaten Rohde. It's also my sincere hope that people do not try to use transitive logic here, i.e. if Rebel beats someone, and Program X beats Rebel, then Program X is proclaimed better. Mr. Schroder has made a case for tuning programs to play against humans, and not against each other. This is also what the public wants. The only way to know which program is strongest overall is to see which is best at playing top human players at tournament time control. That is the gold standard, everything else is meaningless.
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