Author: Harald Faber
Date: 03:41:06 07/22/99
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On July 22, 1999 at 05:43:38, hgkjhg wrote: >Well, fritz 5.32 is the program that played at wmccc and at frankfurt open. That is still WRONG as Uri pointed this out already. In both events a parallel version on 4 processors AFAIK played. I'm >not saying it's the best in comp. vs. comp. games, shredder is. But all these >results from shep or from Tania Devora don't seem very reliable. Chess Tiger >and Hiarcs seem to be a lot better than other programs there, but they didn't do >so well at wmccc, for example. So may be the opening books make the difference. The difference is that you conclude from few games. Like most people do. If you would have played another tournament after the WCCC with exactly the same programs without any changes, the result wouldn't have been the same again. Of course we got an impression of the strength and the style. But nothing more. If you want to find out if Hiarcs or Fritz is better, then take 2 PCs at about P2-400 speed and play at tournament control Fritz5-Nimzo2000 Fritz5-CM6000 Fritz5-MCP8 Fritz5-Rebel10 Fritz5-CSTal2 Fritz5-Shredder3 Fritz5-Junior5 at least 20 game match each which would give 140 games. (Even 20 game match isn't very much...) Then add Hiarcs-Nimzo2000 Hiarcs-CM6000 Hiarcs-MCP8 Hiarcs-Rebel10 Hiarcs-CSTal2 Hiarcs-Shredder3 Hiarcs-Junior5 and compare the results. Of course you may add Genius, WChess and Zarkov, the more opponents the more games you get and the better is your comparison.
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