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Subject: Re: REBEL-TIGER II convincing winner of NGT 2001

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 03:24:54 01/07/01

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On January 06, 2001 at 20:30:16, stuart taylor wrote:

>just one or two clarifications if possible-
>1) What is Hiarcs XY?
>2) Are they all done with latest patches? (and not the upcoming patch for
>Tiger)?
>3)Was Deep Fritz done on a singal proccessor?
>
>I would also wonder why Shredder 5.0 did so badly. Although I believe it could
>have been possible for Shredder 5.0 and Chess Tiger 13 to change places, as CT13
>still seems to have some weaknesses according to some experiments (like certain
>settings from, if I remember correctly, Fritz 6a), but the upcoming patch may
>leave it at top place for all the coming year, because, when weaknesses are
>corected, at this level, it's increasingly harder to find and exploit further
>smaller weaknesses. And if Hiarcs XY is a test version, it hasn't been developed
>properly yet. Maybe It hasn't been easy to improve upon Hiarcs 7.---, hence all
>the delays.
>S.Taylor

As far as I understand Hiarcs XY is Hiarcs 7.32 with playing style=defensive and
contempt=1 and openingbook=Powerbook 2000.

Ernst.



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