Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 03:04:17 06/28/99
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Terry, Like Dr. Hyatt, I take the rating of chess programs with a grain of salt. The important thing for now is how well they do against one another. The next phase, which is rapidly approaching, will be to see how the monsters of 2000 and beyond do against the grandmasters on a real tournament basis. I would say that Hiarcs 7.32 is probably 70 to 90 ELO points stronger than Hiarcs 6. When you consider the massive improvements in the endgame databases and the enormous opening book plus the improved learning algorithm and the speed up with code optimized for 32bit systems then you can see that Hiarcs 7.32 is a much more interesting program to play than Hiarcs 6. H732 is 2,213KB and H6 is only 268KB in length. This increase in "knowledge" makes for a much more human-like chess game. If H732 were doing the same type of search as H6 it should be about 1/9th as fast. It is obviously doing some pretty fancy $#%^. As I have said before, these programs/machines will get so good that only Kasparov and maybe ten other top players will beat them. Playing against them will be even more fun as we see the damn things start giving us strategic plans on how they will bury us. "Dear Terry we are playing a B b5 Moscow Sicilian opening. I will attempt to cremate you by the following plans: x,y,z . If you think that by me telling you this that you can counter my plans then I will modify those plans at a juncture unknown to you and you will lose!" You ain't seen nothin yet!!!! Tim Frohlick
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