Author: Shep
Date: 04:43:39 07/14/99
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On July 14, 1999 at 01:27:30, Terry Ripple wrote: >Hi Tania, > I would be very interested in the games between Hiarcs7.32 and Fritz 5!! If >you could post those games for me, that would be really nice! I had my Hiarcs >program for a few weeks and i`am also a proud owner of Chessmaster 6000 which is >very fierce and i`am also very happy with this for its interesting style. >Chessmaster is mainly lacking in its Small and Shallow Opening Book, plus the >Interface, and Opening book editor is a weak point, but it`s still a good, >strong and interesting chess program. > I would love to see a match between Hiarcs7.32 and Chessmaster 6000!!! Speaking of "_the_ strongest program" is often very dependant upon the hardware used. From my >1500 games for instance, I can conclude that the strongest programs at 40/120, broken down by MHz speed and in no particular order, are: 486-66 and below: Hiarcs 6/7.32, Chess Tiger, Genius 5 (since they're the best at 10/game on fast hardware) P6-233: Chessmaster 5555, Hiarcs 6, Junior PII-400: Chess Tiger, Hiarcs 7.32, Rebel PIII-550: Chess Tiger, Junior, Hiarcs 7.32 K7-1000: who knows what we'll see there? CM 5555 is a particularly good example how one program can be the strongest on one platform, yet fall back to average at machines 2-3 times as fast. Genius as well: very strong on slow machines, but not a single win in 11 games on 233 MHz, and that wasn't even against the strongest opposition... However, I agree that Hiarcs 7.32 is probably _the_ strongest program now since most people have 300+ MHz machines now anyway. IMHO, no-one should seriously ask "...or should I buy XYZ instead?". ;-) And I believe Chess Tiger will be very close once it hits the market, especially if it should use tablebases one day, too (Christophe has not yet said if implementing this is on his short-time schedule, but I guess not). --- Shep
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