Author: Mark Young
Date: 09:37:55 06/20/99
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On June 19, 1999 at 18:22:40, Anatoli wrote: >Hi ! >It will be very interesting if somebody runs a 10-20 game match between the >World Champion Shredder and Hiarcs 7.32 on two fast mashines. I am still very >surprised by Hiarcs poor performance. There was a big mess about it and its >2600+ rating. Now everybody is after Ferret and Shredder and Hiarcs 7.32 is not >a star anymore ?! I personally thing that a 7 round robin tournament is >absolutely unsuitable for challenging the World best program. Programs must play >with each other using White and Black colous and the tournament should be >longer. >Thanks I don't think Hiarcs7 had a poor performance. It did not win, but played some good chess against some very fast and strong programs. I agree just because Hiarcs7 did not win this short tournament, this does not mean Hiarcs7 is still not the best commercial program. If one of us on ICC ran a tournament like this at home, then claimed the winning of such a tournament was the best and strongest program based on the results..., everyone on ICC would rip that person a new one and with good reason. Shredder could be the strogest program, or so could Rebel 10.5. All you can say for sure for this tournament is that Shredder won and Ferret came in 2nd, thus Shredder claimed the right to call itself the world champ. To read anything more into this tournament is nonsense, there are not enough games between the programs to say Shredder is stronger then Hiarcs7 or any other program in this tournament that was near the top.
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