Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 07:59:34 04/26/98
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On April 26, 1998 at 06:44:29, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On April 26, 1998 at 06:15:42, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>Congratulations on a well done job.Is the Hiarcs 6 the original DOS >>version or is it the H6 module(ie chessbase -fritz) that took part in >>this tournament? > >It was the DOS version of Hiarcs 6. > >> apart from convenience why did you play F5+H6 vs F5 on >>the same computer rather than on separate computers, as this may have a >>given a better idea of the true potential of F5+H6 combination.It would >>be interesting to play F5+H6 combination in a 40 in 2 game vs the other >>opponents(starting of with exactly the same games as have already been >>played) to see if this combination is stronger thanF5 alone.(Which in >>theory they should be as according to your reviews H6 is a better >>endgame player than F5) > >It would have been much better to play all programs on separate >computers, as I did in the 40/2 tournament. The problem is that the >autoplayer Fritz 5 works only as master. Since Junior 4.6 is a module >for Frizt and the F5+H6 are modules too, it was impossible to make them >play betweem themselves or against Fritz 5 on separate machines. That's >why I entered them in these particular matches in engine-engine form. I >couldn't have done it in another way. For this same reason I couldn't >include Junior 4.6 in the 40/2 tournament, as I had no way to make it >play against Fritz 5 on separate machines. And I started the whole >tournament as a test for Fritz 5, so Junior was left out. Pity. > >Aside from Junior, I would have liked to include Genius 5, Shredder 2, >Chessmaster 5K and CST, but it would take too much time for me alone to >do it. > >Enrique > >>Rajen Gupta I was just told that Fritz 5 can also autoplay as slave. I won't be able to check this out until tomorrow. If true, the 30 sec/move tournament would have been conducted wrongly in more ways than I care for. All Junior games and the match F5 vs. F5+H6 should be played again. :((((((((((( Enrique
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