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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 10 hypermodern ?

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 19:08:30 12/26/05

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On December 26, 2005 at 22:00:06, Heinz van Kempen wrote:

>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

Hello Heinz -- I will respond to your email when I arrive home.  I can say,
however, that Mark shares my opinion on the possibilities of Hypermodern by
itself but not combined with aggressive.

Regards,

-elc.



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