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Subject: Re: Hiarcs showing strong results on PIII 800 Crushing Fritz 6a 7.5 - 2.5

Author: Mark Young

Date: 10:51:07 06/22/00

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On June 22, 2000 at 09:59:42, Dragos Gabudeanu wrote:

>On June 22, 2000 at 05:18:47, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>On June 22, 2000 at 04:58:45, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>>
>>>What timecontrol did you use?
>>>
>>>Best wishes...
>>>Mogens
>>
>>Game in 5 mins.
>
>
>The results are flawed.  I too tried Hiarcs7.32 engine in the Fritz5.32 GUI.  I
>understood that Fritz clears its hashtables and Hiarcs does not. Therefore,
>Hiarcs will always be a step ahead of Fritz in the match ...  I love Hiarcs and
>know it is strong, but not THAT strong as Fritz 6.  I also tried some time ago
>(game/5, game/15, game/60, etc.) with Hiarcs aghainst Crafty 17.10 under Fritz
>GUI and got the same results.  Beware!  All the other programs clear their
>tables (do not remember previous thinking) while Hiarcs does not ... BIG
>advantage.  If you try with two computers the result will be different.
>
>Dragos

If you look at the ratings of Fritz and Hiarcs in the game header you will see
that Fritz 6 has been crushing every program in my tournaments working under the
same conditions. The only thing that now has changed is the CPU. I was playing
then on a P II 450.



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