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Subject: Re: Shredder vs Hiarcs

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 13:48:03 06/21/99

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On June 21, 1999 at 07:49:15, Harald Faber wrote:

>On June 21, 1999 at 07:12:16, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>
>>>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
>>
>>Shredder played H7.32 during my preperation for Paderborn quite a bit.
>>In total Shredder scored 60% out of 63 30 minutes games.
>>Shredder was running on my tournament machine (PIII-550) whereas Hiarcs only
>>used a PIII-500. I do not want to publish the games so I have no proof for that.
>>If you don't believe that I am very sorry for spreading rumors in your opinion.
>>
>>Stefan
>
>I guess he wants to see tournament games 40/120 and no fast tc like g/30.
>(BTW me too) :-)

There will be a test of the WC version of Shredder and a report on my
preperation of the WCCC including some test results in the next issue of
ChessBits.
I am sorry to say that it will be in German only.

Stefan



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