Author: stuart taylor
Date: 17:36:21 10/19/03
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Thanks for your post. I'm just writing to say that I read it at t he time and was thinking if and what to reply. It's an important post, and needs to be studied by those who analyze all this. I was just doing my occasional 7-day author search of my name to see if I forgot anything! regards S.Taylor On October 16, 2003 at 11:41:05, margolies,marc wrote: >I ran an engine-engine blitz match between Hiarcs9 and Fritz8.26 >Both played well and differently. I learned alot from watching them. >Fritz8 rally enjoys prophylaxis-- restricting minor pieces. Hiarcs9 seeks >interesting unbalanced positions. Fritz won more often than Hiarcs, but when >Hiarcs won it was an education for me. >I ran 46 games (4"+2')on a singlechip XP 1700 machine. Each side had a hash of >370 megs. Tablebases disabled. Fritz can mate with B+N ,btw. I don't want to >reduce what I learned to a score... I do not think that is fair for a couple of >reasons. I am not sure that the Hiarcs engine was using its opening book while >firtz used the powerbboks. I suspect a there's a bug in the fritz engie match >software which does this. Still a good cheap entertainment. >-marc > > > >On October 15, 2003 at 16:38:20, stuart taylor wrote: > >>I mean, even though this was the most recent program, it is unfortunately >>obviously a little weaker than the top, when put up against ssdf testing. >> If Hiarcs' style is superior to all other programs, then maybe that can be >>"forgiven", and still be seen as a great new and worthwhile program, because I >>beleive that style is worth rating points. >> But at any rate, I hope that Hiarcs can come up with a quick fix (patch) to >>make its rating a little higher than its competitors, because the way it is, I'm >>not motivated enough to select it, instead of other programs, like Shredder 8, >>(or even 7.04, or Fritz 8 or Junior 8). >>I'm really looking forward to Shredder 8, according to what I hear. I hope they >>don't release it without full strength due to non necesity at this time! >>S.Taylor
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