Author: James T. Walker
Date: 06:13:17 05/15/02
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On May 15, 2002 at 08:47:36, Chessfun wrote: >On May 15, 2002 at 08:17:54, James T. Walker wrote: > >>Since yesterday I have been playing Hiarcs 8 in blitz games. I started with >>Fritz 7 as the opponent and after 22 games Fritz was ahead by 15-7 which is >>about the same performance I was getting at G/60. After more games the score >>was 41.5-24.5. So the score was improving slightly. I then switched to >>Shredder 6 (original Chessbase version). Hiarcs 8 won by 34-26. This is the >>first win I have had by Hiarcs 8. Maybe things are getting better? The only >>thing different is that I switched to the Hiarcs 8 GUI instead of the Junior 7 >>GUI. This was done before the Fritz 7 match. I hate the new Chessbase GUI >>because it has so many bugs. If it makes Hiarcs 8 play better then I will live >>with it at least while using Hiarcs 8. Many more games are needed to see if >>this is actually the problem I have been having. For the moment I can only keep >>my fingers crossed. >>Jim > > >I don't think running the engine in another GUI would cause a problem. I guess >it's possible it may not use the book correctly, but would assume engine output >is engine output. > >Currently I've had Hiarcs 8 running in my lightning 1/1 tournament currently it >stands with 505/818 with losing scores so far only against Fritz 7 and >ChessTiger 14. It has a tie score with Gambit 18/36 and Deep Fritz and a small >plus 18/35 against Hiarcs 7.32. > >Sarah. Hello Sarah, Yes, it's my only hope that the problem is Hiarcs 8 does not read the book correctly in the Junior 7 GUI. I don't believe the engine is playing differently or at different NPS. Jim
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