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Subject: Re: Hiarcs7 and LCTII Again

Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)

Date: 19:09:50 01/24/99

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On January 19, 1999 at 11:22:41, Eric Gallula wrote:

>Hello Friends!
>
>I have had a mistake at my LCTII tests with H7
>
>H7 64 MB HT
>-----------
>
>Positionnal:  250 pts (not 265 pts )  60% (not 63%)
>
>Combination:  265 pts   74%
>
>Ending:       155 pts   57%
>
>ELO: 2570
>----------
>
>Best regards,
>
>Eric

With HIARCS, one has to be careful of the LCTII position POS 12 -
perhaps that is the source of your correction.
Here's an email I sent the HIARCS folks back in December, but
the LCTII results on their site have not been fixed yet.

>On the HIARCS web site - http://www.acc-ltd.demon.co.uk/h7tres.htm
>the LCTII pos12 position is scored at 2 seconds (30 points)
>for both HIARCS 6 and HIARCS 7.
>
>I suspect the right score for HIARCS 7 is 135 seconds (10 points) - that
>if you set this position up for HIARCS 7 without the "best move" hint,
>that it would take about 135 seconds to find the solution and not wander
>away from it again - that's what happens on my copy of HIARCS 7 "gold".
>
>The issue is, LCTII test scoring is based on running the problem for a full
>10 minutes, and if the program holds the solution at the 10 minute mark,
>the time to be scored is the time that the program became "faithful to"
>the solution. Finding the solution, then straying from it, doesn't count.

Richard A. Fowell



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