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

Author: pavel

Date: 15:01:53 05/11/02

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On May 11, 2002 at 17:46:00, Chessfun wrote:

>On May 11, 2002 at 17:35:28, Ian Aston wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
>Thanks for that info. I haven't run any CM personality in any of the UCI
>interfaces, Fritz 7, Shredder 6 or Hiarcs 8 yet.
>
>What is the wb2uci converter and where can I download it?.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Sarah.
>
>
>
>>>
>>>Sarah.


http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/Wb2Uci/#install

pavs



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