Author: Marc Plum
Date: 16:31:41 06/26/99
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On June 26, 1999 at 14:15:11, Mark Young wrote: >If we are going to make the conclusion here in CCC, as goes Hiarcs6 in this >match so goes all chess programs. I would like to make a suggestion. Don't let >Hiarcs 6 repersent the other chess programs in this match. Hiarcs 6 as I have >posted in the past is one of the worst programs at faster time controls. It is >very slow in seeing danger and will ofter make itself look dumb. I won't argue with this opinion or confirm it. I have little experience with the DOS HIARCS 6. However, remember that one of the big advertising points for this program was the perfectly true claim that it won a match at tournament time controls against an International Master. I think one of the things we can learn from this whole brouhaha is that such claims don't tell the whole story. On the other hand, since it did have this result, it must have something going for it. > >On the computer system that Hall is running, I would suggest using Chess Genius >5. Genius 5 is one of the best if not the best program playing humans at this >time control, and the program is of the same generation as Hiarcs 6. > >As I have posted in the past I played a match some time ago with GM A Ivanov. I >used genius 5 running on a Cyrix P 166. The time control for the match was 30 >mins plus 30 secs a move. Genius 5 won with ease and GM A Ivanov quit the match. Do I understand correctly that Ivanov quit after one game, or before the match had been decided? That's too bad. If the match had been completed, Genius indeed might have won, but surely it isn't safe to assume that it *would* have been so. Perhaps I misunderstood you completely and Ivanov quit only after the match had been decided but before all the scheduled games had been played. I'm sorry, but I missed your previous posts about this; would you mind clarifying? Best Regards, Marc Plum
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