Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 17:01:30 05/14/02
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On May 14, 2002 at 17:40:04, eric guttenberg wrote: >Hello Jim, > >There is a recurring theme in your posts, specifically that engine-engine >matches on one computer is a different animal than games played on 2 comps. >No one seems to want to even address that point. You mention it and it gets >ignored. But I think it is an important point. I see nothing to criticize >in your setups. Your results speak for themselves. In 2-comp games, Hiarcs so >far is not up to the level of the top programs. More games may give a different >impression, but so far the only results that dispute yours seem to be >played on one computer. > >As a matter of fact, I remember when Hiarcs 7.32 and Fritz 5.32 first came out. >There were a number of matches posted by various people on this site. I >noted then that H7.32 won over F5.32 convincingly in most engine-engine >matches but that in 2-comp matches the results tended to be very even. > >I hope you keep posting your results. I think they are very valuable. > >eric This data is also important, regardless of what you may have read about Hiarcs8. Sarah has already posted this once, twice won't hurt:) http://www.elhchess.demon.co.uk/ehss.htm PC PROGRAMS Ratings are calibrated to Pentium2-3/MMX/K6-7 machines running at 450MHz. .............BCF Elo.. Program 1. 260 2685 Fritz7 2. 258 2664 Hiarcs8 (390 games from many sources) 3. 257 2657 Gambit Tiger2.0 4. 256 2654 Chess Tiger14 5. 256 2653 Deep Fritz6 6. 255 2644 Shredder6/632 7. 253 2632 Junior7 8. 252 2623 Fritz6a 9. 252 2621 Gambit Tiger1.0 10. 251 2613 Rebel Century4 (367 games) 11. 250 2605 Rebel Tiger12.0 12. 250 2603 Junior6a 13. 249 2599 Shredder5/532 14. 248 2587 Hiarcs732 15. 246 2574 Hiarcs 7.1 16. 246 2572 Nimzo8 17. 246 2568 Gandalf5 18. 245 2566 Nimzo 732 19. 245 2560 Fritz532 20. 244 2556 Chessmaster 6000/7000 ================================================================================ Terry
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