Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 11:04:01 01/24/00
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>> [...] >> >>Hitech isn't a lot weaker, if it is any weaker. It was a very strong program, >>it just was the wrong hardware design to 'keep up' with general-purpose computer >>advances. I would put hitech on a par with today's programs, or at least with >>programs on machines prior to the 500+mhz machines. Hitech was very fast and >>had a good search... > >Having watched and played Hitech in Hong-Kong, I estimate its strength to be >slightly lower than the top micros on '95 hardware, i.e. about SSDF 2350. > >Amir I completely agree with you on this point, Amir. "Hitech Hong Kong '95" searched around 150K nps and reached iteration depths of 8-9 plies in the middlegame. On of the main problems with its hardware was that it did *not* support futility pruning which made it lose at least one ply in overall iteration depth. =Ernst=
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