Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:33:28 06/27/99
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On June 27, 1999 at 06:22:36, Terry Ripple wrote: >On June 27, 1999 at 06:08:25, Brett Clark wrote: > >>On June 27, 1999 at 01:42:40, Tania Devora wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>Hi guys, I have finsihed my first twenty games between the super strong >>>Hiarcs7.32 and Fritz5.32 under tournaments controls, ( 2 hours and a half for 40 >>>moves, 1 hour for 20 moves, and all the moves for 30 minutes) . >>> >>>Fritz5.32 disapointed me totally, look the games, they all have good openings, >>>and more than once Fritz lost in winning positions. Look carefuly at the games. >>> >>>Please look carefuly the game number 20, is one of the most beautiful game than >>>i ever seen. Remember me the great JOSE RAUL CAPABLANCA. >>> >>>The results dont lie, Hiarcs7.32 is superior. My machine is k6-2 333 mhz with >>>128 ram, 44 mb for each one. 150 minutes for 40 moves. >>> >> >>It should come as no surprise that Hiarcs would win most of the games in these >>engine vs. engine matches. First of all, at tournament time controls on your >>machine, Fritz 5.32 would require 120 MB of RAM to function at full strength. >>Moreover, Hiarcs retains its hash tables between moves in the engine vs. engine >>matches, whereas Fritz starts from scratch on every move. This in essence gives >>Hiarcs the equivalent of "pondering". >> >>I've noticed that in matches played on separate machines, these programs appear >>to be fairly even, but only time will tell. >------ >Hi Brett, > Is there a way to get around this "Pondering" idea other than to have to play >matches with two seperate CPU`S? >----- >Terry Nope. And even the fact that you disable pondering on both programs doesn't make this a fair contest, because one program might do things while pondering that it doesn't do otherwise. Or it might screw up time allocation. Or whatever.. It's pretty pointless to use one machine and then post results here...
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