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Subject: Re: Why is HIARCS X so good at Blitz & Standard Chess?

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 14:32:28 01/08/04

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On January 08, 2004 at 17:16:17, Bob Durrett wrote:

>HIARCS X plays as “sinferno” at ICC on an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ @ 2.5GHz computer.
>It holds the "official" ICC Blitz Record at 3604 and has the fewest losses and
>better overall records versus strong titled players than any other computer on
>ICC.  It has only lost five games to two titled players but has played a large
>number of GMs, IMs and FMs.  It is currently the top engine at ICC using
>Standard time limits.
>
>Why is that?  Why is it better than all the other chess engines no matter what
>the hardware?  Is SSDF missing something here?  Is there a disconnect here?
>
>Bob D.

My guess is that it does not play computers.  Picking on poor humans at blitz is
a no brainer.
Jim



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