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Subject: Re: Hiarcs8 Bareev stronger than Hiarcs9?

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 14:24:01 09/17/03

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On September 17, 2003 at 16:59:12, zeidoun wrote:

>Hello every body, i just got the H9. It seems that these engines are very
>strong.
>After a 10 RR match between a new setting for Shredder7.04 H9 and H8Bareev, i
>saw that H8Bareev has a much much aggressive style of play than H9. It tied 5-5
>against Sh7.04 while H9 lost by 2.5-7.5.
>When i analyse these games more carefully, i see very good things in the play of
>these two new engines. I really like them. Serious testing is needed to know
>their real strength. The disaster performance of H9 is certainly due to the fact
>that it was a blitz game match.

I have found that H9 performs excelent in Blitz! I think your match is to short
to say something for sure about strenght of H9. Except that Schredder is an
extremly strong engine, such results are to be expected in a 10 game match, also
between engines of equal strenght.

Torstein



>I used for the three engines my modified Nunn Testset (www.chesslovers.tk) so
>that to avoid big influence of the opening books and to see the skills of the
>engines.
>
>Just one thing, Human vs Machine matches are really very interesting for me,
>because i like the computer games especially against strong humans. I also like
>the fact to have many engines on the same CD (like the experience with Deep
>Junior8). The variability between the different engines even if they don't have
>the same strength (there are weaker and stronger engines) is very interesting.
>It holds all my interests and give me great moments by making tournaments with
>new very strong engines. I encourage and send a message to Mr Stefan
>Meyer-Kahlen (Shredder programmer) and Mr Christophe Theron (Tiger) to tell them
>to make matches against strong chess players, but also to release two or threee
>or may be four different engines (even a little bit weaker beta engines but who
>works!!). These engines will participate to make the pub for their leading
>product because it will result to a bigger discussion on the strength of the
>different engines, but also to a greater number of games.
>
>Hope that you agree with me
>
>www.chesslovers.tk
>
>NB: The mentioned games aren't yet posted on my homepage. Wait for the next
>up-date!



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