Author: blass uri
Date: 23:37:33 08/03/99
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On August 03, 1999 at 16:23:40, James T. Walker wrote: >On August 03, 1999 at 13:37:00, eric guttenberg wrote: > >>Jim, >> >>Some time ago you posted the results of some 240 games played between >>Fritz 5.32 and Hiarcs 7.32 on separate computers showing a surprising >>edge for Fritz..i.e. 40 games at g/15 were 27-13 in favor of F5.32. >> >>Today I am informed by blass uri that in subsequent games you played >>in which Hiarcs was provided a higher hash setting, the results were >>much different, almost, but not quite, in line with some of single- >>computer results posted by Tania. >> >>Could you please post the results of those additional games, and the settings? >> >>eric > >Hello eric, >I looked up the stats and here is what I found. The g/15 time control had Fritz >ahead after 40 games by 27-13 as you mention. I believe this was mainly caused >by the lack of hash memory for Hiarcs 7.32. After correcting this problem Fritz >still won the 74 more games I played at that time control by a score of 39-35. >Of course this is not enough games to separate the two. So at g/15 the total is >66-48 favor Fritz mostly due to the score in the first 40 games where Hiarcs was >"starved" for hash memory. >I have more games at blitz and here is what I found. At game/5 min the total >score is 407.5 to 380.5 in favor of Hiarcs 7.32. I also played 50 games at >game/3 min and the score is 26.5 to 23.5 favor Hiarcs 7.32. >The games were all played on two computers using auto232 connection. The >computers were a PII-333 and a K6-2-350/400. At some point I overclocked the >350 to 400 Mhz. I gave both progams an equal amount of games on each computer >to help compensate for the difference in speed. I recently upgraded my K6-2-350 >to a K6-3-450 and Hiarcs seems to gain more from the change than Fritz. I have >not run any test yet using the K6-3-450. >As an added note I have played only 12 games at "standard" time controls between >the two and Fritz leads 9.5 - 2.5. I can't explain this except that it is a >small number of games and will probably even out with more games. >Jim Walker It is interesting to see if there are stupid blunders of Hiarcs in these games. I remember that in one game Hiarcs did a stupid blunder against Cstal when my Hiarcs could not reproduce the blunder. The game I am talking about was played manually so it was not a problem of the autoplayer. It is possible that Hiarcs has problems with some machines. Uri
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