Author: Paul Doire
Date: 16:20:08 01/20/04
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On January 20, 2004 at 19:10:46, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On January 20, 2004 at 18:53:36, Paul Doire wrote: > >>I have posted all the games right here, and am running more ....all >>blitz. Hiarcs is certainly strong...but the best? > >try hypermodern+aggressiv ON. > >>The smaller tourneys that those numbers consisted of showed >>different winners and Hiarcs was never one of them. > >that is why i don't believe in those numbers. >i have computers too at my home, 2 x 1200 and a few others. >and i do play 40/40 and 40/120 normally. > >and with my notebook i play on the server. but my notebook is not fast. >i do normally use hiarcs9 with aggr.+hypermodern ON and it plays very active and >interesting games. > >>Subject: 3-72 game Blitz tourneys 216 games Top Engines >> >>The last tourney of the three was posted a few days ago. >>I wanted to show tourneys together for comparison. >>Last 2 played on PIII 450, > >don't you think that a 450 Mhz PIII is a little SLOW ?? >my old amd's 400 are even faster than this PIII. > > > >>First played on 542 Celeron, 128MB RAM, WIN98SE, CHESSBASE GUI >>First 2 Tourneys PONDER OFF > >>All were 5 minute blitz > >5 minutes blitz on a 450 mhz machine ???? > >IMO you don't measure the strength of the programs but something different. > >5 minutes blitz on a 400mhz machine is IMO a joke. >if you would have used this 1998, it would have been ok , i would have >complained because of the blitz. but today ??? > >nothing against you or your hardware. >i have 2 400 mhz machines too. but i would not use them for blitz. >i would use them for 40/120 and consider the results as blitz results on todays >hardware. Yes I have old hardware but the results are relative, they all ran on it, the same hardware. It is possible that some engines are better optimized to take advantage of fast hardware, this is true. But how much would that have helped Hiarcs relative to other modern engines also? I just don't know. I stand by my numbers for that answer.
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