Author: blass uri
Date: 01:28:36 07/04/00
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On July 04, 2000 at 02:34:55, Steve wrote: >On July 03, 2000 at 18:49:14, Torstein Hall wrote: > >>I'm not so sure that Junior will give better analysis than Fritz 5. They are >>both fast searcher with about the same level of pos. knowledge. Anyway I feel >>that all the programs give most tactical variations anyway, even Hiarcs 7.32, >>considered among many as the most positional engine. > >I agree. Hiarcs 7.32 is great, but its strength (just like every other >engine's) is tactics. Its analysis of endgames is often horrendous. > >> >>I rather go for Crafty! Its free, has more chess knowledge than most of the >>programs and runs as a native chessbase engine! >> >>Torstein > >A number of people have made the same observation in this forum. But whenever I >play Hiarcs 7.32 against Crafty (running as ChessBase engine) -- generally at >either G/30 or G/60 -- Hiarcs wins easily. The only game that I played Hiarcs7.32 against Crafty17.11 at 3 hours/40 moves Crafty won and my observation was that hiarcs has a bug at time control that is longer than G/30 or G/60 and this is probably the main reason that it failed in the ssdf list. The bug is in playing and hiarcs could probably be a better program in tournament time control if it knew to clear its hash tables after every move because learning from previous search is bad if it is done in the wrong way. Uri
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