Author: Brian Katz
Date: 03:24:21 04/24/02
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On April 24, 2002 at 03:15:41, Steve Maughan wrote: >Stuart, > >>That is a question of beauty, I think. But chess is meant (imho) to show which >>beauty (or playing style) is real and which beauty is false. And that is what >>the whole competition of chess is about. >> >>Therefore, the great playing style is only of true value and beauty, when it >>is proven over the board. > >I admire your search for absolute chess truth! > >I think we need to make a distinction here between a single game and all >possible chess games. There will be a number of games where Hiarcs plays great >positional chess that is a pleasure to watch - indeed some, or many, of these >games Hiarcs will 'prove' it's knowledge by winning the games. Then there is >the question of does Hiarcs always play the best move in every situation - well >the answer is no but for a huge number of situations we don't know what the >absolute best move is - and due to the massive number of possible chess >positions we will never know for certain what the best move is. So in this case >I'd appreciate many different styles. This is why I buy many different engines. > >Regards, > >Steve It would probably make more sense for those of us who are serious chessplayers on the rated tournament level,club level too, or any level where one wishes to improve, to purchase Hiarcs as well as Fritz 7. Fritz is extremely tactical and Hiarcs is very positional. That gives us both ends of the spectrum. Most of the top level programs are all Grandmaster strength. We can sharpen up on our tactics without losing site of play against a positional opponent. The point is that just practising for months against Fritz 7 may not be enough when you go into a tournament and get crushed posotionally. Unless we get all of the engines for comp vs comp competitions it appears that 3 engines cover the spectrum. Fritz........Tactical Hiarcs.......Positional Shredder 6...Somewhere in the middle Brian
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