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Subject: Re: FRITZ5.32 - HIARCS7.32 = 0 - 1 (12) Please look !!!! need opinion

Author: Melvin S. Schwartz

Date: 11:28:50 06/13/99

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On June 13, 1999 at 11:41:44, blass uri wrote:

>
>On June 13, 1999 at 10:12:56, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:
>
>>
>>On June 12, 1999 at 16:38:34, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On June 12, 1999 at 16:02:53, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>I know that mark young believes that Hiarcs7 is better than Fritz5.32
>>>>>and Hiarcs7.32 is probably 25% faster than Hiarcs7.
>>>>
>>>>Hello Uri,
>>>>
>>>>For what it's worth, the SSDF testing between Hiarcs 7 and Fritz 5.32 in 40
>>>>games is Fritz 22 - Hiarcs 18.
>>>
>>>I know about this result.
>>>In this case the games are public
>>>This match was very close and Fritz5.32 won the last 3 games but hiarcs7.32 is
>>>faster then Hiarcs7.
>>>
>>>I know that mark young believes that Hiarcs earns more from faster hardware.
>>>He believes that Fritz5.32 is too aggresive and it can be a problem at long time
>>>control.
>>>
>>>
>>>>Unfortnately we can only speculate here because the 5.4 is not available to test
>>>>against either Hiarcs or Fritz.
>>>
>>>It is available to me and I think to test it against Hiarcs7.32
>>
>>Why not test it against Fritz 5.32 as well?
>>I am not a Fritz 5.32 fanatic. I have both Fritz 5.32 and Hiarcs 7.32. It's just
>>that I like to see meaningful testing of top programs with equal parameters for
>>all.I should emphasize as equal as possible!
>
>I do not have unlimited time and I prefer to test Junior against the best
>program.
>
>I believe that Hiarcs7.32 is now the best commercial program  because I believe
>that Hiarcs7.32 is better than Hiarcs7 and I also know that Hiarcs7 did very
>good results in tournaments.
>
>Here are the facts that I read about Hiarcs7:
>
>1)It is not number 1 in the ssdf games but it is closed to be number 1 and I
>believe that being 25% faster could push it to be number 1.
>
>I see some strange results in the ssdf games.
>
>I discovered that Hiarcs7 could not mate with bishop and knight against king in
>the ssdf games when I read that the real hiarcs7 can do it.
>
>on the other side the 28.5:11.5 result against Junior5 seems strange to me
>(we will see if tania and mark young can produce something close to it with
>Hiarcs7.32)
>
>
>2)It is number 1 in enrique's tournaments(40 minutes per 40 moves on 2
>identiacal pentium400 with 256M Ram)
>
>3)I also read that mark young evaluated Hiarcs7 as his favorite program based on
>games against many programs and also at tournament time control and his Fritz
>has no problem of not enough hash tables.
>
>Uri



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