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Subject: excellent explanation. thanks (nt)

Author: Joseph Ciarrochi

Date: 03:38:12 01/10/06

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On January 10, 2006 at 06:32:02, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On January 10, 2006 at 06:10:34, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:
>
>>But hiarcs 10 seems to get fairly killed on the cegt list, as does toga1.1
>>(http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/cegtrating4040all.html#3).
>>
>>what do you think are the optimal conditions for toga and hiarcs to defeat
>>rybka?
>>
>>(i am so tempted to buy hiarcs now)
>
>from my machines i can say that rybka had problems with "styled" hiarcs10,
>and with togaII 1.1a.
>
>While hiarcs10 (in default) had problems with rybka, but beated
>fruit, f9 and s9 (60-65%).
>
>since rybka had no book i used j9 for rybka. all others used their own book.
>i do test 40/40 or 25+10.
>
>I have no idea how the CEGT testing is different from mine.
>
>IMO in the moment it makes not much difference what to buy.
>fruit, rybka, hiarcs. they are all good programs.
>it seems to be more a question about taste.
>if i were you e.g. i would not buy f9 because it is still the same 0.00 ... fail
>low - oh oh program.
>of course with more knowledge over all. but the sero score and suddenly fail low
>behaviour is still in it.
>this is not useful for me.
>fruit on the other hand is still (IMO) to much search based program. i would
>apreciate if fruit would develop into a less search based program.
>
>it seems hiarcs and rybka are knowledged based programs. i would say rybka is
>more radical in this then hiarcs is (so far).
>On the other hand rybka still has many lacks of knowledge that hiarcs does not
>have.
>A problem is that hiarcs plays silly book moves in wrong CB-GUI's. i read in
>another german forum (kurt utzinger remarked this) that HIS hiarcs10 played
>1.e4 e5 2.a3?! although a3 was marked as weak move.
>When others tried to replay this, it came out that kurt used an older version of
>the GUI.
>this older version of the gui (i think it was october 2005 GUI) is still very
>common and used by many people. with e4 e5 a3 the "bug" is very easily to see.
>but i doubt that you will see it very good in OTHER more deeper opening
>situations.
>This weakens hiarcs10 depending on the GUI the people have when using the
>original h10 book.
>for rybka i guess there exist many different versions.
>and i think rybka is not very happy when running on slow machines or machines
>with SMALL cache such as celeron.
>
>what to buy ?!
>depends on what you have so far.
>and what you do with the program. i found hiarcs a very good program for
>analysis.
>when i replay chess games of  all kind of humans and programs, hiarcs gives me a
>very precise insight of the game.



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