Author: Mark Young
Date: 17:03:22 06/26/99
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On June 26, 1999 at 19:31:41, Marc Plum wrote: >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. Yes it does, it just need long time controls. It is much weaker at the faster time controls when confronted with good anti-computer play. > >> >>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? Gm Ivanov quit after going down a few games, I think Genius was +3 or +4 after only a few games. Then he quit and left in the middle of a game where genius was going up a rook. He did not even resign the game. That was the last I heard from GM A. Ivanov. I asked GM Roman to award the win to Genius because it had a won position and had no chance of losing, and GM Roman agreed and gave the win to genius ending the match. We played a game or two aday depending on how much GM Ivanov wanted to play. > >Best Regards, > >Marc Plum
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