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Subject: Re: My dubious victory over Hiarcs 7.32

Author: Ralf Elvsén

Date: 10:17:38 08/11/99

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On August 11, 1999 at 08:35:52, blass uri wrote:

>On August 11, 1999 at 05:59:25, Ralf Elvsén wrote:
>
>>Hi there
>>
>>Here is a game I won against Hiarcs 7.32 (pgn below).
>>Mighty proud to have fair and square defeated the "superstrong"
>>Hiarcs, I looked at the game in analysis mode, but on a different
>>computer and now I am perplexed...
>>
>>The game was played on computer A (see below). When analyzing on
>>computer B I noticed that the analysis is much faster on B, much
>>more than I would expect from the hardware. What is even more
>>strange is that the evaluation of the position on the two computers
>>are sometimes very different. Computer A is much more pessimistic.
>>For instance, after 14. Kh1 Hiarcs played 14 ... Bd7 in the game
>>with an eval of 0.61 (positive good for white = me) after search
>>to depth 10. On comp B the eval is around equality and Bd7 is move
>>nr 4 in the analysis candidate list after depth 10, eval = 0.00.
>
>My hiarcs on p200 got Bd7 0.61 9/27,0.68/10/30
>I stopped it after more than 10 minutes and did not give it to finish iteration
>10.
>I suspect that the results of hiarcs on computer B are based on learning from
>the game that it lost.
>
>Uri

Hi Uri

Eehh... Your reply still leaves me wondering. When you look at the game, Hiarcs
play is almost pathetic. I still have a "feel" that Hiarcs underperformed. And
look at the big difference in search depth on move 14 between the two machines
(10 vs 12 in about the same time). But I don't know much about how Hiarcs search
works. Maybe its not so predictable as e.g. Craftys.

I'll wait with the celebrations a while. Btw, I _have_ lost to Hiarcs :)
These losses would be even more depressing if something was wrong
with the machine or the settings...

I'll dig in to this some more if the game isn't rejected/verified by some
enlightened posters (other than yourself of course).

		Thanks for your answer,  Ralf




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