Author: George Tsavdaris
Date: 08:43:02 02/10/06
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On February 10, 2006 at 11:32:31, Mark R. Anderson wrote: >On February 10, 2006 at 10:47:48, Sarah Reynolds wrote: > >>This program to me seems stronger then Rykba, it plays a mean game of chess and >>doesn't give the human player any chances at all, great program i think. > >Sarah, > >I agree that Hiarcs 10 is a very strong engine, that it plays a mean game and >doesn't give the human play any chances, and that it's a great program. Having >said that, I must disagree with your other statement .... as much as I love >Hiarcs and its very nice style and capabilities, Rybka is most definitely >stronger. All of our testing and also inspection of the games between the >engines confirms this many times. > >Hiarcs is a wonderful analysis engine ... it is very strong tactically (one of >the top 4 or 5), plays very good speed chess, has a very good positional game, a >very human-like style that is also very active and agressive, and also has good >PV evaluation numbers. It also has a good endgame, but not as good as Shredder. > I use it more than Fritz, Shredder, Fruit and Junior for analysis generally. >However, I have been extremely impressed by Rybka's play and results (haven't we >all?) and when using it to help analyze top human GM games, I find that it finds >the "human" line of play better than other engines, and it finds these moves >rather quickly also, which is impressive. Also, it is positionally without >peer, IMHO. > >The present version (1.01 Beta 13b) is a real beast, but when the final verizon >comes out with improved search and also endgame heuristics, it will be a true >monster. "Real beast", "True monster", what's the difference? Both will kill me and all other programs out there! :-) While i'm always impressed when i see a new super strong program, with Rybka i have the impression that it gets its Chess knowledge from another dimension....No kidding. It seems to have a higher understanding of Chess. But that is probably an illusion of me..... >Oh, one more thing ... I agree with another poster here that Rybka >"spots" and frustrates attempts to use closed positions and other >"anti-computer" strategies to get draws or occasional wins. Recently, my >girlfriend was really impressed when she saw me get a draw in a game with Tiger >15 at Game/20. I said, "Thanks, I think I played pretty well, but this one will >bring me down to earth." I then played a similar game with Rybka, and it >basically turned my game into ground hamburger ... not a pretty sight. She just >said, "Oh, that must be the really strong one you talk about." I said, "Yes, >there's no fooling the Monster." (What's Russian for "Big Monster?" "Little >Fish" doesn't seem to do justice to this one.) >
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