Author: James T. Walker
Date: 14:46:33 06/17/99
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On June 17, 1999 at 17:36:44, KarinsDad wrote: >On June 17, 1999 at 16:08:34, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>Dear KarinsDad, >> >>If you have seen the sprint races among humans you will notice that the >>difference between first and fourth place may be only four or five feet. You >>know that all of the athletes are "about the same" and yet the "winner" is just >>a "little bit better". So it is with computer chess and drag racing. > >Yup. > >> >> >>I rest my case. > >You rest your case? You have no case. In the current SSDF standings, Fritz 5.32 >has a 22-18 lead over Hirarcs 7.0 on the same system with the same size hash >tables. To argue that Hirarcs will definitely beat Fritz is not that sure of a >prediction. That's why they play the games. I have no clue where some people >come up with their theories. :) > >KarinsDad :) > **************** Another factor to consider is that Fritz is running on multiprocessors and Hiarcs is not. The SSDF was done on equal hardware. By the way (KarinsDad) in another post you indicated these were not the currently available programs but I followed the Hiarcs game today with my Hiarcs7.32 and it predicted the game very close if not exactly. (I can't remember a move that was not predicted) Jim Walker **************** >> >> >>Tim Frohlick >> >> >>PS Evolution works like this with "adaptions" that make the populations just a >>"little bit better" at surviving a particular environmental stress. >>Eventually, you have gotten from an ape-like hominid to our chess-programming >>primadonas of today. So don't tell us that little advantages are not important. >>How did we get from "Applied Concepts" Boris the talking chess computer to >>Hiarcs?
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