Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 02:21:57 10/03/00
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>>Blitz: 25' 2000 >> >> 123456789012345678901234 >>1 Hiarcs 7.32 110½½10½½½101½0001½1011½ 13.0/24 >>2 Fritz 6 001½½01½½½010½1110½0100½ 11.0/24 > This is not a "fair" test. As Uri Blass has said elsewhere--Hiarcs 7.32 is an older program and Fritz 6 is a newer program. Looks pretty equal to me. Ha,Ha. MChessPro 6 has a higher SSDF rating than MchessPro 8. Sometimes the ratings go down. My sources at the Rebel Beta site have Fritz 6B being incinerated by Tiger Gambit 4 to 1. Now we don't know what Fritz 7 will do but it will probably be better. Then again, we all know that a program can lose strength in comp-comp games because the knowledge added may slow the tactical search greatly. I made comment of the fact that the Beta testers were wasting their time testing against older programs. The newer programs are betas themselves and certainly not available to the competitors beta teams. I told the Rebel Beta testers that someone would say that the results were meaningless and that they should test their betas against the new improved versions of the opposition. Nobody replied to that post... Must be a case of "Groupthink" i.e. "We are right and you are wrong." Of interest is a recent game by GM Mecking against Tiger Gambit that was posted on the Rebel Beta test site by Mr. A. Silver with Mecking resigning as white after 43 moves. It was a blitz game and computers usually do well on that level. To put things in perspective.. The chessprograms of tomorrow will have .exe files that are 100 to 300 Mbytes in length, opening books of 100,000,000 moves and EGTBs of 6 to 7 men. They will not even play on todays computer systems or hard drives. They will be big monsters that require enormous computing power. For all that we will still be having fun debating what the best program is. Tim Frohlick
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