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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 10 hypermodern ?

Author: Heinz van Kempen

Date: 19:00:06 12/26/05

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On December 26, 2005 at 21:48:43, enrico carrisco wrote:

>On December 26, 2005 at 21:40:14, Graham Banks wrote:
>
>>On December 26, 2005 at 21:24:50, Heinz van Kempen wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>If you take a look at the individual stats (click engine name) you will see that
>>>worst ELO performance is against some engines where we still have few games
>>>(Jonny, Ktulu, Gandalf) and we also played many games against Rybka versions and
>>>Deep Shredder 2CPU 512 MB and Shredder 9 with ELO performance below average. So
>>>my guess would be that rating will increase as soon as we covered a wider
>>>spectrum of opponents. I prefer to have at least 2000 games to take any
>>>conclusions.
>>>
>>>We have diverse settings for Fruit, Shredder, Rybka. So it would be fair enough
>>>to test also Hiarcs with an alternative setting. Anyone can explain me what is
>>>influenced by the hypermodern setting? Any results available here?
>>>
>>>Best Regards
>>>Heinz
>>
>>
>>Hello Heinz,
>>
>>all I know is that if you use hypermodern, it is also advised to use aggressive
>>with it for best results. I'm sure Harvey will correct me if I'm wrong,
>>
>>Regards, Graham.
>
>No -- that is incorrect.  It is an option to use both -- but it is Thorsten's
>feeling that they must be used together.  I do not find this the strongest
>setting in my tests.
>
>-elc.

Hi Enrico,

okay, opinions differ as usual. I will try and play a bit, first with normal and
hypermodern, then maybe with aggressive and hypermodern. If one of those looks
promising tests will continue over many games hopefully.

Best Regards
Heinz



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