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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 8 vs Fritz 7 --2ea 1.4G/auto232 machines @ G/60'

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 08:07:32 05/08/02

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On May 08, 2002 at 09:47:46, James T. Walker wrote:

>Hello Thorsten,
>I have no control over what NPS Hiarcs produces.

i hope it is NOT producing those low NPS. I have not seen them on my autoplayers
so far. maybe its your machine?
maybe it is automatically doing some diskscan overnight, or
doing defrag while playing chess :-)))

or it goes into energy saving mode :-))


>All games are auto232 and
>"untouched by human hands".


and the machine ? maybe the machine is doing some of the nice automatic
stuff.

i have once seen the machine of peter berger doing some automatical
diskscan and defrag or whatever during a tournament :-)))




>As usual you are way out in left field with no clue
>of what you are talking about.


sorry for that. don't wanted to attack you.
but when i see those low NPS i get irritated.
is this a problem for you ?

but take my best wishes and my thanks for your work.


> In any case,  I have not given up on Hiarcs 8.

thank you.


>I know it is early and the number of games is small.  I did not expect Hiarcs 8
>to top Fritz at Game/60' but I did expect it to show better than Hiarcs 7.32.
>As of this moment I only have 24 games by Hiarcs 8 @ G/60' and it is tied with
>Hiarcs 7.32 on my Elo list.  Hiarcs 7.32 has over 400 games so of course I
>cannot say that Hiarcs 8 is only equal to Hiarcs 7.32.  I do not agree with your
>"excuse" that I must play 1-3 minutes/move to see Hiarcs 8 play well.


excuse is good.


have you ever asked a programmer how he develops or tests his program ?




>Even
>Shredder plays very well at G/60' and I expect Hiarcs 8 to also play well at
>that time control.
>Jim

ok - i think its a free world. you should be allowed to expect whatever you
want.

i wish you all the best for tomorrow.



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