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Subject: Re: CadaquƩs Tournament: Fritz 6a - Tiger, 11.5-8.5. Final standings

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 06:27:59 02/10/00

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On February 09, 2000 at 20:55:32, Nicholas Cooper wrote:

>On February 09, 2000 at 10:57:37, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>
>>On February 09, 2000 at 10:53:51, Harald Faber wrote:
>>
>>>On February 09, 2000 at 10:51:17, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>>
>>>>>Congratulations to Enrique who played this big tournament and gave us new
>>>>>interesting games and results!
>>>>>Thanks, Enrique!
>>>>>(BTW when are you going to play the top-5 or top-6 in tournament mode or
>>>>>3h/game?) :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>Uh, let me count, 100+80+60+40+20=300 games, multiplied by 6h = 1800h, divided
>>>>>by 24h = 75 days... and who pays the power supply? ;-)
>>>>
>>>>:)
>>>>
>>>>More: how about entering Crafty? And testing Hiarcs 8 and Century 1.2? Or else,
>>>>how about putting it all on fire and enjoy life? So  T E M P T I N G... :)
>>>>Enrique
>>>
>>>Fire it all up!?!?!??? Enrique, dare you! :-)
>>>Century 1.2 has no autoplayer, and Hiarcs8? Do you know s.th. we don't? :-)
>>
>>I posted about it before. Mark is working on it and I have a pre-alpha and
>>finally also time to take a look at it (and at many other things, so the fire is
>>still so appealing...)
>>
>>Enrique
>
>Enrique,
>
>Would you mind posting your impressions of the pre-alpha Hiracs 8 after you've
>had a chance to look at it- for instance, I presume it is still a slow,
>knowledge-based searcher but does it still have persistant hash tables and has
>the great middlegame of Hiracs 7 been added to the great endgame of Hiracs 7.32
>etc.?? Any comments you could make, particularly as a comparison with (say)
>Junior 6 (seeing as it just won your fine tournament- thank you for all your
>efforts) would be greatly appreciated.

Right now I can't tell anything yet about the engine itself because I just
started playing with it. It will take time, and pre-alphas are usually very
different from the final release. It's a slow process. I know that among other
things (all!) Mark wants to address specific problems, like performance at slow
time controls, aside from positional improvements and tactical speed ups.

>Of course, I fully understand if this is not possible due to some agreement with
>Mark himself but in that case, would you mind asking him if he might post some
>information on the new version, as I'm sure many would be interested.

Mark didn't ask for any sort of restrictions regarding information about Hiarcs
8 and I am sure that he will keep us posted as soon as the engine will start
resembling the final release.

Enrique

>Regards,
>
>Nick Cooper



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