Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 09:53:05 07/28/00
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> I assume you are a strong player? If so in your > opinion which program is strongest against humans? Not very strong. I haven't played in human rated events for over fifteen years. While in physics graduate school I competed for a less than a year (after not playing at all for several years) and had rating around 2100. As to opinions, yep I got those. Having played against most top commercial programs (other than Chess Tiger), Hiarcs 7.32 is IMO the "strongest" in the sense of the core playing strength (the quality of its decisions). I often find myself in a strategically lost position against it, without even noticing how it did it. Suddenly in game I will see there are no good moves left for me, nothing active I could do, while it has any number of good possibilities. With other programs, when I am in a lost position, it is almost always after overlooking some tactical shot and losing material. With Hiarcs (and occasionally with Rebel 10b) my possibilities get somehow squeezed out imperceptibly. I get the same sense of an opposing strength as when I played against very strong human players (masters and above), the sense of being completely outplayed. With Fritz 5.32, Junior 5 or CM6000, after a lost game it's a sense "what a cheap shot," while with Hiarcs (and occasionally Rebel) it is often a sense: "a good one."
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