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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 8 ! - How good are the test results?

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 18:24:59 04/22/02

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On April 22, 2002 at 20:06:00, Tina Long wrote:

>The article gives 4 test positions, and although they were probably selected as
>examples of where Hiarcs plays best, it would be interesting to see how other
>engines compare with the H8 results.
>
>I would apreciate anyone who has tried them posting their results.

Well, I have the results from Der Bringer on A P3 650. I find it interesting
that it takes 56 minutes and 600,000,000 positions to finally realize that it is
a sure thing. Hiarcs in 29 seconds, searching about the same speed, seems pretty
impressive. Of course, Deeper Blue would search this many positions in 3
seconds, and would no doubt find it by then. But since I can't get that one,
I'll try Hiarcs 8, I think. I haven't updated Hiarcs since version 6, when KK
was hyping it here in '97.

Here's Der Bringer's logfile:

============ Weiß / white  am Zug / to move ===
  .  wS  wD   .   .   .   .   .
 sK   .  sB   .  sB   .   .   .
  .   .   .   .   .   .   .  sB
 sB  wB   .   .  wB   .  wB   .
  .   .  wB   .   .   .   .   .
  .   .  sB  sD   .   .   .   .
  .  sS   .   .   .   .   .   .
  .   .   .   .   .   .  wK   .
target response time (ms): -1
max. response time (ms): -1
Static score: mat = -100, pos = 23, total = -77
0:00:00.0  ( 3/15)      11704   0.01  1.Nc6+ Kb6 2.Qb8+ Kc5 3.Qxc7
0:00:00.2  ( 4/17)      42063  -0.10  1.Qxc7+  (Mat=0,50=0)
0:00:00.3  ( 4/17)      54961   0.01  1.b6+  (Mat=-100,50=0)
0:00:00.4  ( 4/17)      62848   0.13  1.b6+ Kxb6 2.Qa6+ Kc5 3.Qxa5+ Kd4 4.gxh6
Qxc4  (Mat=-100,50=0)
0:00:00.6  ( 5/21)      94857  -0.17  1.b6+ Kxb6 2.Qa6+ Kc5 3.Qxa5+ Kd4 4.Nc6+
Ke4 5.gxh6  (Mat=0,50=0)
0:00:01.0  ( 5/21)     158123  -0.16  1.Qxc7+  (Mat=0,50=0)
0:00:01.3  ( 5/21)     179655   0.00  1.Qxc7+ Ka8 2.Qxa5+ Kxb8 3.Qb6+
(Mat=-235,50=1)
0:00:02.8  ( 6/25)     420212   0.00  1.Qxc7+ Ka8 2.Qxa5+ Kxb8 3.Qb6+ Ka8 4.Qa6+
Kb8  (Mat=-235,50=4)
0:00:07.3  ( 7/28)    1118108   0.00  1.Qxc7+ Ka8 2.Qxa5+ Kxb8 3.Qb6+ Ka8 4.Qa6+
Kb8 5.Qb6+ Ka8 6.Qa6+ Kb8 7.Qb6+  (Mat=-235,50=9)
0:00:21.1  ( 8/30)    3554122   0.00  1.Qxc7+ Ka8 2.Qxa5+ Kxb8 3.Qb6+ Ka8 4.Qa6+
Kb8
0:01:11.5  ( 9/34)   12350910   0.00  1.Qxc7+ Ka8 2.Qxa5+ Kxb8 3.Qb6+ Ka8 4.Qa6+
Kb8 5.Qb6+ Ka8 6.Qa6+ Kb8 7.Qb6+  (Mat=-235,50=9)
0:04:36.8  (10/38)   48197005   0.00  1.Qxc7+ Ka8 2.Qxa5+ Kxb8 3.Qb6+ Ka8 4.Qa6+
Kb8 5.Qb6+ Ka8 6.Qa6+ Kb8 7.Qb6+  (Mat=-235,50=9)
0:17:06.9  (11/46)   177308957   0.00  1.Qxc7+ Ka8 2.Qxa5+ Kxb8 3.Qb6+ Ka8
4.Qa6+ Kb8 5.Qb6+ Ka8 6.Qa6+ Kb8 7.Qb6+  (Mat=-235,50=9)
0:20:29.5  (11/46)   210661608   0.01  1.b6+  (Mat=-100,50=0)
0:20:30.2  (11/46)   210823639   0.51  1.b6+  (Mat=-100,50=0)
0:47:01.7  (12/46)   485393839   0.91  1.b6+  (Mat=-100,50=0)
0:47:05.4  (12/46)   486065057   1.31  1.b6+  (Mat=-100,50=0)
0:56:18.5  (12/50)   600312267   29.00  1.b6+ Kxb6 2.Qa6+ Kc5  (Mat=-200,50=2)


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