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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 7.32 and the new SSDF-list

Author: Chris King

Date: 15:44:33 06/13/01

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On June 13, 2001 at 18:23:03, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 13, 2001 at 17:40:07, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On June 13, 2001 at 16:05:55, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On June 13, 2001 at 15:59:04, Peter Ackermann wrote:
>>>
>>>>If I compare the March-01-edition and the June-01-edition I see that not a
>>>>single game was played with Hiarcs 7.32 for three month now. Both lists show
>>>>Hiarcs 7.32 with 679 games.
>>>>Is Hiarcs 7.32 not attractive anymore? I myself consider Hiarcs 7.32. still one
>>>>of the very interesting engines and if I try engine-matches between the Tigers
>>>>ans Hiarcs it is not so a clear result..... I have the impression that Gambit
>>>>Tiger has some problems with the style of Hiarcs 7.32. So please give Hiarcs
>>>>7.32 a chance from time to time even if Hiarcs 8 seems to be on the way.
>>>>
>>>>Peter
>>>
>>>What is your hardware and what is the time control of your game?
>>>
>>>It is important because Hiarcs7.32 does not like the K6-450 of the ssdf and I
>>>also believe that it prefers also fast time control and not 2 hours/40 moves.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Hello Uri,
>>I have seen post by you before like this and I don't agree.  I would like to
>>know where you get your information.
>
>The fact that hiarcs does not like the ssdf hardware is known.
>I was careful to say "I believe" so I may be wrong and it is based on my
>impression from analyzing some engine-engine games and also on the fact that
>I found from my experience that hiarcs has a bad branching factor at long time
>control.
>
>Another reason that  expect Hiarcs to suffer at long time control is the fact
>that hiarcs cannot search more than 30-32 plies forward when the time control is
>not important(I understand that it is going to be fixed in Hiarcs8).
>
>  I'm still running Hiarcs 7.32 on my Athlon
>>900 mhz machines and it still does very well against other top programs.  For
>>instance in my "standard" database (G/60 or longer)  Hiarcs 7.32 is right now
>>ranked tied for 6 place with Chess Tiger 13.0.  It is behind Gambit Tiger
>>14.0,Chess Tiger 13.0, Deep Shredder and Fritz 6e/6b.  This puts it ahead of
>>programs like Gambit Tiger 1.0, Shredder 5, CM8K(32M), Junior 6.0 and Rebel
>>Century 3.0.  This is not a huge database.  It has only 694 games but so far I
>>see nothing to indicate Hiarcs does not compete with the faster hardware/longer
>>time controls.
>
>This data does not contradict or prove the conjecture that hiarcs is better in
>blitz on the same hardware.
>
>The only way to test if it is worse at long time control is by comparing
>hiarcs7.32's result in blitz with the results of it at longer time control on
>the same hardware.
>
>Using the same hardware is important.
>
>The reason is that I believe that hiarcs likes the fast hardware more than other
>programs(my experience is that for Hiarcs PIII800 is more than 2 times faster
>than pIII450 when it is not the case for Deep Fritz).
>
>Uri


On a 1ghz Athlon Hiarcs 7.32 appears to be only about 34 points behind Fritz 6
at 5 minute blitz.





    Program                          Elo    +   -   Games   Score   Av.Op.

  1 Gambit Tiger 2.0               : 2665   25  29   496    64.3 %   2563
  2 Chess Tiger 14.0               : 2655   29  32   376    64.0 %   2555
  3 Fritz 6                        : 2627   16  19  1264    63.9 %   2528
  4 Hiarcs 7.32                    : 2593   16  18  1250    60.9 %   2517
  5 Junior 6.0                     : 2563   19  18  1172    54.9 %   2529
  6 Nimzo 8                        : 2537   19  16  1250    52.3 %   2521
  7 Fritz 5.32                     : 2537   39  33   276    55.1 %   2502
  8 The King 3.12                  : 2534   42  55   156    48.1 %   2547
  9 Crafty 18.08                   : 2530   19  16  1210    53.0 %   2509
 10 Junior 5.0                     : 2522   38  31   304    53.3 %   2499
 11 Fritz 4.01                     : 2515   56  43   128    57.0 %   2466
 12 Hiarcs 6.0                     : 2509   45  36   216    53.7 %   2483
 13 Fritz 5.00                     : 2496   58  45   128    53.9 %   2469
 14 Junior 4.6                     : 2466   38  46   216    47.5 %   2484
 15 Fritz 3.10                     : 2459   46  60   128    47.7 %   2475
 16 Hiarcs 4.0                     : 2446   39  43   216    44.2 %   2487
 17 Comet B32                      : 2428   22  22   756    41.4 %   2489
 18 Doctor? 3.0                    : 2382   29  30   412    42.0 %   2438
 19 InmiChess3.06N                 : 2319   38  27   394    32.9 %   2443
 20 EXchess 3.14                   : 2293   41  25   412    29.4 %   2445
 21 Fritz 1.20                     : 2278   77  42   128    21.1 %   2507
 22 Faile 1.4.4                    : 2152   66  21   412    14.7 %   2458
 23 BamBam                         : 2149   69  21   412    14.4 %   2458

CK



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