Author: blass uri
Date: 13:21:32 07/28/00
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On July 28, 2000 at 15:17:26, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> The question which program is best may be dependent in the >> time control. What is the hardware and time control of your games? > >I play on either Celeron 400Mhz or another Celeron 466Mhz, 64Mb for hash tables >(on machines with 128Mb total RAM). Depending on how much time I have, most of >the time I set programs to 15 or 30 seconds average per move (my time is usually >similar to program's although I don't pay attention to how long I think on a >move). Hiarcs is good at this time control. I think that the learning bug of Hiarcs becomes a problem in longer time control I played one game with hiarcs7.32 against Crafty17.11 with time control of 3 hours/40 moves and no permanant brain and Hiarcs lost and analyzing the game proved that there was a learning bug problem(hiarcs could play better without learning from previous search). I also use infinite time control or analysis mode when I occasionally >look through a database game. In the first weeks of trying out a program I also >play a few tournament level games. > >As to using programs one version back from their current ones, from games and >results I have seen, it doesn't seem it would change very much in terms of >playing pleasure or general impression. I still think a loss to CM, Fritz or >Junior would leave the usual after-taste of a 'cheap shot'. Over the almost two >decades, there were only few times where going to the new version or a new >program brought something really new. The appearance of Super Constelation, AI >chess (later M-Chess), Rebel 8 and Hiarcs 6/7 are the few cases where after the >first game I thought 'hey, this is something interesting and new.' The rest of >upgrades or tries 'new' programs over years didn't bring a sense of something >essentially new, ahead of the pack. I know that the difference between Junior6 and Junior5 or Fritz6 and Fritz5.32 is a big difference in ssdf rating. The difference in other cases(like Rebel8-Rebel9) is usually smaller. In the case of Junior the programmer almost did not work about search and the main difference is the evaluation function. Uri
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