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Subject: Re: Which Program Would do the Best on ICC?

Author: blass uri

Date: 22:27:53 06/27/99

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On June 27, 1999 at 16:43:59, Mark Young wrote:

>On June 27, 1999 at 15:49:53, odell hall wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>
>>  I am thinking about setting up a computer account on ICC? Does anyone know
>>Which Program would  do the best? If the choice was between Genius 5 , hiarcs6,
>>Mchess 8 or Genius 3? I have heard that Genius 5 is the Best a blitz chess
>>(game/15) is this still true. What program would tear the crafty clone Data to
>>shreds!!  (incredibly strong data is!) Or should I just go out and purchase
>>Chessmaster 6000 to do the Job?
>
>The best results I have had is with Hiarcs 7.01. I have not had a chance to play
>7.32 online because of the testing I am running now. I most likely will only
>test Hiarcs 7.32 against humans online, after testing Hiarcs 7.01 online against
>other computers its left a bad taste in my mouth. I try to test against the best
>programs online and play a set amount of games, but with Hiarcs 7 this became
>almost impossible because of the high winning percentage Hiarcs 7 was
>generating. The automatic programs would no play me, or change the time formula
>to only play 0 inc games in the middle of my testing, and some of the other
>manuale computer operators were no better. Rating protection in online play is
>only getting worse, and thats to bad because it was a nice tool to use in the
>evaluation of chess programs.

I do not understand it.
I think that programmers should prefer to play against strong opponents because
they can learn from the games that they lose to improve their programs.

Uri



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