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Subject: Re: How different hiarcs8x from H10?

Author: Graham Banks

Date: 00:07:35 02/28/06

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On February 28, 2006 at 01:00:17, Bahram Namjou wrote:

>On February 28, 2006 at 00:47:07, Harvey Williamson wrote:
>
>>On February 27, 2006 at 21:56:23, Bahram Namjou wrote:
>>
>>>On February 27, 2006 at 20:43:22, Andrew Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 27, 2006 at 18:57:10, Bahram Namjou wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 27, 2006 at 14:24:22, Harvey Williamson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On February 27, 2006 at 02:39:32, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On February 26, 2006 at 18:34:03, Bahram Namjou wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>thanks, bn
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      180-200 Elo
>>>>>>>      Best regards
>>>>>>>      Kurt
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Hiarcs8X is the name of the login at ICC and not the engine. I think Kurt is
>>>>>>refering to the 180-200 points that Hiarcs10 is stronger than Hiarcs8. It would
>>>>>>be nice if the version that we played with was 180-200 points stronger than H10
>>>>>>then we would be be well ahead of Rybka - a nice thought!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Best Wishes
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Harvey
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi Harvey: the problem is H10 doesn't like some of your moves in CCT8 and my pc
>>>>>is fast enough so i was wondering what kind of version of Hiarcs you used
>>>>>...Also if that version be available to public for free so we can have some
>>>>>better competetive plays against rybka in playchess!...thanks, bn
>>>>
>>>>Free if you bought H10 :-)
>>>>
>>>>Andrew
>>>
>>>well, I have H10 and it didn't like some of the moves from Hiarcs in CCT8
>>>including the famous Rxd5 against rybka...so how different are these two? and if
>>>these changes are related only to modifying the parameters, what were those
>>>parameters...thanks, bn
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Hiarcs was playing in CCT8 with Hypermodern on. The version playing was our
>>latest beta. No decision has yet been made about versions or timetable for
>>future releases.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Harvey.
>
>Thank you for let us know about this and good luck in your difficult task...
>also I have a quick suggestion that in slow games, H10 default plus (CV=10) will
>play better than hypermodern. The only change basically is increase the contempt
>value to 10. Hope this suggestion will be useful...regards, bn


I think it's dangerous to tamper with the contempt value and more often counter
productive than not.
I thought that Fritz 9 and Hiarcs 10 changing to contempt=0 as default was a
wise move over the -15 of previous versions.
However, we're all entitled to different opinions!   :-)

Regards, Graham.



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