Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:04:52 10/03/01
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On October 03, 2001 at 06:46:28, Tina Long wrote: >On October 03, 2001 at 04:06:19, stuart taylor wrote: > >> >>What makes a person "go" for something in particular? Perhaps the fact that they >>have that particular program at present? >>S.Taylor > >Hi Stuart, >That works for me! - I barrack for what I own & what I think of the Authors. > >The first chesscomputer I played with was a Mephisto Polgar & so I was a fan of >Richard Lang & convinced my Stepdad to buy Genius 1,2,3,4. > >Later I discovered that the Polgar was written by Ed Schroder, and as Richard >seemed to have peaked with Genius3, and Ed had such a helpful website, I became >a fan of Rebel. > >Then I bought Hiarcs6 - on the advice of Thorsten Czub and liked the way it >played what I thought were ununderstandable moves. But I was still mainly a >Rebel Fan. > >I dabbled with Chessbase Lite & bought Fritz5 as Chessbase was too expensive, >but never felt any (devotion?) to it. > >"The King" topped the SSDF by a chunk a long time ago, with a card that went >into your PC, so I watch it in Chessmaster to see how it goes. I hate the >Chessmaster company for no particular reason except I think their box-lids have >always been false advertising. The Chessmaster company being bought and sold >helps me to hate them, but John Merlino is such a great guy that I can't hate >them much. I bought CM7k for the long awaited new King engine - & now I hate >CM7k because all it's beautiful boards are too small (in 1024x768) so I have to >use an ugly plain custom board. > >So now I have Hiarcs7.32 which I believe plays the very best moves if it is >given time to decide, I believe it is its time management that costs it the 100 >or so points it is behind. I believe it has a hash bug that cost it rating points. I posted in the past a game at long time control when Hiarcs lost when I could not reproduce the error of Hiarcs after the game and the only ay to reproduce it was to play the game again. The problem of hiarcs seemed to be that it learned some wrong information from the hash tables and the result was that it wanted to play the wrong move. It failed low in the last iteration when it did not use it's wrong learning but it was too late because it had not enough time to solve the fail low and had to play a move. <snipped> >I am (anti) Shredder & Genius now because they cost twice as much as other >programs. It is not truth for shredder5.32 and it cost the same price like other chessbase engines. Uri
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