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Subject: Re: Anybody believe me ?

Author: Chuck

Date: 16:28:03 06/06/99

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On June 05, 1999 at 03:55:03, eric guttenberg wrote:

>Tania,
>
>I suspect Micheal is right. The results of the games between Fritz 5.32
>and Hiarcs 7.32 that I have seen up till now show advantage to H7.32
>but not by anywhere near the overwhelming margin in your results.
>
>It is likely that playing the games on one computer influences the performances
>and leads to unreliable results.  I suspect that Fritz 5.32 and Hiarcs 7.32
>are not very far apart although it appears that Hiarcs may be significantly
>stronger.  Not many games have been played though.
>
>eric

Your system setup plays into the hands of HIARCS, and I'm sure this affects
the results to some degree. Fritz relies on large hashtables, it is the way
the program is designed. A 16 MB hash table handicaps Fritz, even in blitz.
For HIARCS this is not a problem, because it does not fill the hash tables
as quickly (I expect, I have not verified this yet). But one thing I have
seen is that Fritz really slows down once the hash table fills - this would
be a big problem for Fritz at very long time controls.

Chuck



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