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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 9 - Chess Tiger 2004 - 33 games - Long

Author: Mark R. Anderson

Date: 12:47:58 11/01/04

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Peter,

I agree.  I too have found that at fast time controls, Hiarcs is a monster, but
it falls off quite a bit at slower controls.  However, I think all in all,
Hiarcs is a very fine engine with very good positional understanding and also
the ability to sense weaknesses around the king and go after them.  A fun engine
to play against or watch play, one with an "enterprising" sytle.  One of my very
favorites.

Lately, I have been trying tactical suites against some of my engines.  Hiarcs
did very, very well, as I expected.  Also, Ruffian 2.1 did very well too, as did
Pro Deo 1.0.  Those didn't surprise me either.  In one test I did (210 test
positions), the engine that came out on top was Tao 5.6 (UCI version)!  That
really surprised me.  Do you find Tao to be a tactical monster too?  I knew that
Hiarcs, Ruffian and Pro Deo were, but Tao???

Mark Anderson


On November 01, 2004 at 09:37:55, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On November 01, 2004 at 06:13:10, Mark R. Anderson wrote:
>
>>Yes, Hiarcs is known to be a good at blitz
>
>I find anything under 45/10 and it is a monster. If it is over that time control
>it falls off considerably. Odd, but apparent.
>
>Peter



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