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Subject: Re: How would Hitech do against Crafty and others?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:35:01 01/17/01

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On January 17, 2001 at 01:57:41, Joshua Lee wrote:

>Is Hitech still around and if so this is a match i would like to see.


You will likely get several opinions.  I will add one that has a lot of
basis in experience.

1.  No idea if HiTech is still active.  I would suspect not, but I am not
sure.

2.  HiTech was very strong.  It had a reasonable evaluation, a good search
that included Hsu's singular extensions (full implementation that was written
by Murray Campbell) and so forth.  Its only shortcoming is its speed, when
compared to today's programs.  It searched about 150K nodes per second,
which back in the 80's was very fast.  Today it would be outgunned pretty
seriously, although the singular extensions would cover some of that up..

I don't think it would beat any of today's top programs in an extended match,
but in a single game or two it would be a _very_ dangerous opponent.



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