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Subject: Re: Hiarcs10 vs. Rybka1ß 8-5

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:34:17 12/20/05

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On December 20, 2005 at 05:27:33, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On December 20, 2005 at 04:32:06, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>Some notes:
>>
>>1)Note that you did not test rybka 64 bit that is faster(I do not blame you for
>>this but it is possible that the picture could be better for rybka with the 64
>>bit version).
>
>of course. but i have no 64 Bit hardware. mainly i am sceptical concerning
>Windows for 64 Bit.

In my case My hardware is good enough but I do not have windows for 64 bits.

>
>
>
>>2)Note that rybka is only an early version when we can expect improvement in
>>rybka1.2
>
>yes.
>
>
>>The bottom line is that I expect that people who buy rybka are going to have
>>something better than hiarcs10.
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>:-))
>
>maybe.
>
>
>>Based on my observation the main weaknesses of rybka are that in some cases it
>>does not understand  endgames or king safety.
>
>here hiarcs is better. yes.
>
>>I understood that the first weakness is going to be solved in Rybka1.2 and we
>>can expect rybka1.2 in february 2006.
>
>
>i see.
>but - don't you think mark could react on this too ?!
>
>its a tug of war.
>
>best wishes...
>thorsten

Maybe he can react but we never saw in the past big improvement in hiarcs in a
short time and rybka is very young so I predict rybka to be better.

I think that the main program to compete against rybka is fruit(also a program
of a programmer that improved very much in a short time).

Uri



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