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Subject: Re: M-Chess Pro7 : strength ??

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 15:13:39 12/25/97

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It is an undocumented feature but Hiarcs 6 has an automatic  book
learning option which is not accessed by the menus.

KK




On December 25, 1997 at 15:44:53, Thorsten Czub wrote:


>
>Hm. My results so far, especially against Nimzo98 are not that good.
>In the moment I let Hiarcs6 play vs. Mchess7.
>It is the first game and move 27. Hiarcs say -428 and Mchess is still in
>book and has not computed much. Opening was b03 alekhine- four pawn's
>attack.
>I guess this first game is pretty worthless because it only shows me
>something about the "beautiful" opening book instead of the strength of
>the new engine.
>But I let it run some more moves to see how deep the Mchess7 book-line
>is.
>Now it is the 29. move and Mchess STILL in book.
>
>On which results or feelings do you extrapolate your :
>Mchess7 will be one of the strongest engines sentence ?
>If you want i can report more about my games.
>In the moment the game is in move 37 and still mcp7 has NOT computed.
>Those opening lines will - of course - help the program to be ranked
>high in the ssdf-list ... :-)
>I have nothing against a nice opening book. But - as this is the first
>autoplayer game against a KNOWN opponent program, the way it develops is
>not very amusing. I guess there is no doubt that THOSE lines can only
>come into a book when autoplayer-results are dumped and merged into a
>book.
>Only hiarcs6 would have played this line this way, or ?
>So those lines are specific. And they "work" only against hiarcs6.
>As hiarcs6 is a good high ranked program, this would result in
>decreasing of hiarcs6 rating and increasing of mcp7 rating.
>I was the one who defended hiarcs6 against killer-book rumours.
>I think mcp7 could be a strong chess program. I - on the other hand -
>wonder if this is really necessary...
>



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