Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:55:44 06/29/99
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On June 28, 1999 at 06:04:17, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>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 is inaccurate. You are taking the Hiarcs 7 executable from the H7.32
directory. The executable in question has nothing to do with the actual engine,
but is the GUI (same as Fritz, Nimzo99, and Junior 5).
Albert Silver
> 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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