Author: J.Dufek
Date: 22:55:25 08/28/05
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...Frittz 8 are excellent in positional games...? Really? ...maybe not in real correspondence games ... On August 29, 2005 at 01:40:24, Shaley wrote: >As a long-standing OTB and CC player I've certainly used very different chess >engines to analyse my games. Some of them are more tactical like Junior 8, >Shredder 9, Rebel 12, Chess Tiger 2004 etc. They are very good in open and acute >positions when the tactics is on the agenda. Others like Ruffian 2.1.0 or Fritz >8 are excellent in positional games and endgames. But as it happens only Hiarcs >9 combines wild attacking and speculative play with extremely high endgame >technique. In other words, it's a more universal player than others. It's a real >pleasure to use it for position and game analysis. Earlier Hiarcs versions were >attackers too, but they had some drawbacks in positional games; they offset >errors in positional play with the tactical tricks. Hiarcs 9 was something >different in style and play approach. A great many chess players I talked to >were fascinated by Hiarcs 9; they only mentioned one clear drawback: its slow >speedsearch. When you have to comment on a series of games it really takes a >while, so they preferred using Fritz 8 for it. I think we can say Hiarcs 9 play >is very alike Alekhine's style; that's how he played sacrificing material for >the initiative setting hard tasks before his challengers and having >extraordinary endgame technique. >As to the new engines, I feel Fruit 2.1 more as Capablanca or Tigran Petrosyan; >it's very cautious and a purely positional engine. As to Zappa is concerned, I >haven't learnt it as yet. It played very sound games at Reikjavik WCCC but will >the new commercial version be as good on a Pentium-based SPM as it was on an AMD >MPM at the championship is still a question without a reasonable answer.
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