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Subject: Re: MChess Pro 7.1 tuned against Hiarcs 6?

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 06:21:12 02/04/98

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On February 04, 1998 at 04:20:34, Jouni Uski wrote:

>I did some calculations: If we remove from Hiarcs 6 200 MMX 35 games
>against
>booked MCP71, rating goes to about 2550! So probably Hiarcs 6 still is
>the
>best program.

In my oppinion, your conclusion is not okay. If you manipulate
statistics by discarding some selected subset, you can prove (almost)
everything.

>By the way in latest CSS was test Hiarcs 6 against Rebel
>9:
>40 games with predefined openings. Result was clear win for Hiarcs with
>24 - 16 if I remember right.

This does in no way indicate that book cooking is in the game. I would
just conclude that MChess has the better book. That's all.

Regards, Uli



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