Author: blass uri
Date: 11:48:44 07/28/00
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On July 28, 2000 at 12:53:05, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> 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). The question which program is best may be dependent in the time control. What is the hardware and time control of your games? >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." I see from your post that part of the programs are not top commercial programs. Hiarcs7.32 and chessmaster6000 are but Fritz5.32 and Junior5 are not the top commercial programs(Fritz6 and Junior6a are). Rebel10b is also not the latest Rebel but I think that the difference in the Fritz and Junior case is bigger. Uri
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