Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:51:18 05/13/02
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On May 13, 2002 at 07:25:13, Chuck wrote: >On May 13, 2002 at 00:57:06, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On May 12, 2002 at 22:21:41, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>I started a long long time control match of approximately 4 minutes per move and >>>HIARCS 8 is winning 2 games and ZERO lost so far, against one of the very best >>>program available Fritz 7. It seems to me that HIARCS 8 is an excellent program >>>at longer time control and could also be used wisely in correspondence. >>> >>>PS: Once the newer Pentium 3.0 Ghz becomes available this program will be among >>>the very best available , and that could be in another 6 six months. >>> >>> >>>Pichard. >> >>2-0 is not a significant result. >> >>I do not believe that hiarcs is better at longer time control. >> >>It is possible that programs that have better positional understanding are going >>to get better results at slower time control(I do not know) but Hiarcs has not >>better positional understanding based on other posts. >> >>There are positions when it may be better than other programs but there are also >>positions when it may be worse than other programs. >> >>Uri > >OK, so Pichard has posted evidence to support his position and now you try to >discount it totally with logical arguments. Well, his evidence is concrete, so >perhaps you should think a little harder before you disregard and disrespect his >result. For this reason, I think your logic is not good. You didn't present >anything to support what you "believe". Yes, it is too small a result to have >any significance but still it is material evidence. > >Chuck I read results that suggest that Hiarcs8 is good at blitz and second only to Fritz7. I also read results that Hiarcs8 is bad at G/60. It is possible that hiarcs is good only at very short time control or very long time control but I do not know about a program that was proved to behave in this way. Uri
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