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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 7.32 and Fritz 5.32

Author: blass uri

Date: 09:37:07 06/07/99

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On June 07, 1999 at 11:16:13, Shep wrote:

>On June 07, 1999 at 10:15:55, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:
>
>>Since Hiarcs 7.32 and Fritz 5.32 are condidered to be two of the best three
>>prgrams available, if not the two best, wouldn't it be inteesting to run Hiarcs
>>in Fritz, or Fritz in Hiarcs, and have Fritz play tactical and Hiarcs play
>>positional positions? Of course the question then becomes, would the program
>>accurately know when to switch? Anybody have thoughts on this?
>
>Unfortunately, it is not very clear how Fritz differentiates between these
>types. I noticed that, running the Louguet suite, even most of the POS subsuite
>is considered "Tactical" by Fritz (IIRC only 5/14 are "positional" for Fritz).
>
>I have played some games with T:Fritz P/E:Junior (I called this combination
>"ClaireChess" on SCCS) and noticed that either almost the whole game was played
>by one engine alone or there was exactly one point where Fritz switched from one
>engine to the other and never switched back again.
>
>I think Chessbase will sooner or later have to make this function modular and
>programmable because it is still very difficult to decided which positions are
>tactical and which aren't.

There is a simple solution.
look for the first 5 options for 1% of your time.
If the difference between  the best move and the 5th best move is more than a
pawn then the position is tactical otherwise it is positional.

You can change the numbers but the idea is clear.

This is of course not a perfect solution but does someone has a better idea?


I do not know if Fritz5.32 is better in tactical positions.
I read that Hiarcs7 is a good solver so it is good at tactics and I know about
ssdf games that Fritz5.32 won Hiarcs7 because of better endgame play and not
because of tactics.

Does someone has a proof that Fritz is better than Hiarcs7 or Junior in
practical tactical positions?

Another problem if you change the engine often is that Hiarcs cannot use the
fact that it does not clear the hash tables if it is not going to play the next
move.

Uri



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