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Subject: Re: Interesting, But Do These Results Tell The Whole Story?

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 00:43:17 05/12/01

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On May 11, 2001 at 22:25:07, Steve wrote:

>Thank you for posting these very interesting results.  But I wonder if these
>kinds of tests truly measure how well a program analyzes. I own Hiarcs 7.32,
>and if you give Hiarcs 2 minutes to analyze a position and Program X 2 minutes
>to analyze a position, Program X may do better.  But in actual game analysis,
>the fact that Hiarcs analyzes backwards (like all ChessBase products) and stores
>hash tables between moves may produce game analysis of much higher quality than
>Program X, if Program X has neither of those features.

I'll concentrate on your subject line - no , I don't think these results tell
the whole story about how well a program analyzes at all .

(I think the Hiarcs problem was simply coincidence and I agree that when
analyzing your games with it its ability to "learn" during the analysis is very
helpful ).

I do think though it tells the whole story about the ability of the program to
perform well in the Larry Kaufmann test ;-) . I think this test contains some
interesting positions I would like to see being solved by my favourite
chessprograms as they are quite easy for middleclass human players .


pete



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