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Subject: Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding?

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 12:17:09 05/06/02

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On May 06, 2002 at 13:42:28, Peter Berger wrote:

>On May 06, 2002 at 13:23:03, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>On May 06, 2002 at 06:30:59, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>Is Shredder the biggest punisher of mistakes and innacuracies of the opponent?
>>
>>i have the feeling. it is very sensible for you making mistakes.
>>it is not a tactics finder IMO. it also sees positional mistakes of you.
>>but, it is ONE thing to see them, and another thing to use this for winning.
>>
>>i don't think shredder is a big plan maker.
>>it behaves and remembers me much on genius in this field.
>>
>>
>>>If so, that should make it quite interesting. Is it like an upgrade of genius?
>>
>>IMO. yes. in the moment.
>>
>>
>>>You also make Hiarcs sound very tempting.
>>
>>
>>>All independant of who actually wins more.
>>
>>
>>the games with hiarcs, no matter who wins, no matter if the opponent if fritz or
>>shredder or century or or or or or...
>>
>>are the best computerchess i have seen for YEARS by now.
>>
>>i am still wondering why this is.
>>
>>i can only imagine that mark has worked different way than the others.
>>or that he has not copied the state of the art stuff the others did, but
>>done something different.
>>
>>whatever.
>>
>>never i have seen those games. it reminds me on old times of computerchess,
>>saitek machines versus novag, or fidelity versus mephisto !
>>
>>wow !!!
>>
>>this is nice. and i wonder that nobody recoignized. people post results but
>>nobody talks about the games or the evaluations.
>>
>>why ?
>>
>>would be interesting to talk about the different evaluations !
>>
>>if you don't have hiarcs8 yet: buy it.
>>there is no alternative IMO.
>
>That's quite a fine example for the problem judging engine strengths and
>weaknesses by a few games only I think . I have now seen Hiarcs 8 playing
>exactly 6 games on my computers so far and the results and also the games
>themselves were quite miserable IMHO ( it scored 1.5/6 against some of the
>stronger amateur engines with a 12 % hardware speed advantage in slowish
>standard games) - if it was some random engine I tried for the first time I
>probably would have the first impression that it doesn't belong to the absolute
>amateur top. As I know it is Hiarcs 8 I think it is _very_ likely that it will
>play much better, more impressive and more successful games very soon - but so
>far it definitely hasn't at my place.
>
>Greetings,
>Peter

Hello Peter,
Can you post or email me the 6 games?  I find your comment quite disturbing.  I
don't believe Hiarcs 7.32 would do that and I'm amazed that Hiarcs 8 would.  I
know 6 games is a small sample but it's off to a very bad start!
Jim



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