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Subject: Re: Hiarcs8 better at shorter time controls!?

Author: Chessfun

Date: 13:31:04 05/11/02

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On May 11, 2002 at 15:13:04, George Sobala wrote:

>Some results of Hiarcs8 v CM8000(CMFun personality) at various time controls,
>on an 800MHz Duron, 16Mb hash each, Hiarcs with own book, CMFun with Fritz6's.
>
>At G/2' blitz:
>
>Hiarcs8 +67 -38 =35 (60.36%)


If you don't mind could you check how many of these were losses by CMFun on
time?.


>At G/30':
>
>Hiarcs8 +15 -16 =10 (48.78%)
>
>At 120'/40+60'/20+30':
>
>Hiarcs8 +0 -2 =1
>
>Combining the two slower time controls:
>
>Hiarcs8 +15 -18 =11
>
>So contrary to my and others' original impressions, Hiarcs8 seems to perform
>better at shorter time controls than longer.
>
>I also wonder whether it might do better in single-computer engine matches with
>no pondering, than standard two-machine auto232 games: is it out-pondered by
>other engines?


These games you played were on a single PC. Did you have pondering on or off?
Chessmaster don't ponder in a chessbase GUI.

Sarah.



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