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

Author: Ian Aston

Date: 14:35:28 05/11/02

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On May 11, 2002 at 16:31:04, Chessfun wrote:

>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.


The King engine will ponder under ChessBase Hiarcs GUI if it is converted to a
UCI engine with wb2uci converter. It also seems to handle short incremental time
controls ok, such as 1'+1'', whereas as a winboard engine it seems to lose on
time. Don't know about G/2' though.

>
>Sarah.



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