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Subject: Re: Any news on the Strength of Hiarcs 9?

Author: Tomas Casanovas Martinez

Date: 10:22:13 09/21/03

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On September 21, 2003 at 09:20:33, Wayne Lowrance wrote:

>On September 21, 2003 at 04:48:26, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>On September 21, 2003 at 02:45:09, Tomas Casanovas Martinez wrote:
>>
>>>On September 20, 2003 at 12:44:38, David Mays wrote:
>>>
>>>>  I think this engine has only been out for a Week but I haven't heard any news
>>>>on it, any results, matches, ect, is it a big improvemnt over hiarcs8? Any info
>>>>would be helpful thanks.
>>>
>>>My first experiences with Hiarcs 9 at blitz were not satisfactory. Defeats
>>>against Junior 8 at 5 and 10 minutes/game. 12-8 and 11,5-8,5.
>>>
>>>My feeling about the program radically changed when I played ten long
>>>(Tournament) games against Shredder 7.04.  In my opinion (ELO 2100) the quality
>>>of the games was excellent and the match finished with 4 wins for each engine
>>>and only 2 draws. It is clear that only 10 games can not give any stadistically
>>>reliable reference about the strength of Hiarcs 9, but I feel that this is an
>>>extraordinary program to play long Tournament games. Congratulations to Mark for
>>>the big improvement from Hiarcs 8 to 9 version.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Tom Casanovas
>>>Barcelona - Spain.
>>>
>>>... by the way, when I finished the match against Shredder 7.04  these games
>>>dissapeared from my files and I am not able to find them (I am not very skilled
>>>with files :-( ). Any tips, please?. I would like very much to recover them...
>>
>>If these tournament games were even longer timings, would Hiarcs be wining even
>>more than Shredder 7.04? If so, that is great and can be considered the
>>strongest on the market, as far as what interests me most.
>>S.Taylor
>
>F8 is king of the hill in infinite analysis for CC. I wonder if H9 is better ?
>Wayne


As you know, the marginal incidence of every added minute is decreasing. For
this reason I do not think that increasing significantly (for instance doubling)
the time of a game would make a big difference for the strength of the program.
The test against Shredder 7.04 was made at 120/40, etc.

Only time and some hundred games played with Hiarcs 9 will tell us its real
strength. But, by now, what a good feeling!.

Tom Casanovas
Barcelona - Spain.



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