Author: James T. Walker
Date: 18:44:05 06/17/99
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On June 17, 1999 at 18:08:12, Lonnie Cook wrote: >On June 17, 1999 at 17:58:22, James T. Walker wrote: > >>I finished my first 200 games today between Fritz 5.32 and Hiarcs 7.32. The >>games were played at game/5min. They were run using auto232 operation. Fritz >>had a K6-2-400 for 100 games and then swapped and took the PII 333 for the >>second 100 games and vice versa. Fritz used the F5 opening book and Hiarcs used >>it's own book. > >The problem with that is that the HIARCS book suxs. I started using it on ICC >and lost many games outta the opening. Even the Fritz5 default book is better >than the Hiarcs. Nimzo Gm books is still the best out there > ******************************************* Well the problem is that the book is part of the program so good or bad it stays with it for test purposes. By the way, I looked at Fritz 5.32 scores when coming out of book in the first 100 games and according to Fritz, Hiarcs had the advantage in 60 games and 8 games were 0.00. That sounds like Fritz believes the Hiarcs book is OK since Fritz felt it had the advantage only 32 times. Jim Walker *************************** > Hiarcs had all 3/4 man tablebases plus the 5man tablebases >>supplied on the CD plus about 10 more 5 man tablebases. (I don't have them all) >>Fritz won the match 106.5-93.5 indicating about a 22 point superiority at blitz. >> Of course only 200 games leaves some doubt and I will run another set later but >>now I want to play 200 games with Hiarcs 7.32 vs Junior 5.0. By the way Hiarcs >>turned at least one win into a draw because of the tablebases. It was a KPPKP >>endgame which is supplied with the Hiarcs CD. The problem is there is no KQPKP >>tablebase so when Hiarcs got the pawn to the 2nd rank (With Black) it did not >>know how to win the game and got stuck in 3 time rep with Mate in 7 showing in >>the window?! I had this same problem with another program which prompted a >>question a few weeks ago. Bob Hyatt says that the only way to use the >>tablebases is to have them all. I believe it but apparently some programmers do >>not. At a minimum you need the promotion tablebases if you have the pawn >>tablebases. >>Jim Walker
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