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Subject: Re: Blitz - Is Fritz really the best?

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 23:49:29 08/15/99

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On August 15, 1999 at 22:50:09, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:

>This was an engine-engine tournament, 3 min. + 3 sec/move increment, AMD K6-II
>300 MHz with 64 MB RAM, hash= 8 MB for each engine:
>
>1 Fritz 5.16.......... 8.5/12
>2 Crafty 16.13........ 6.0/12
>3 Hiarcs 7.32......... 5.5/12
>4 Comet B02........... 4.0/12
>
>I would like to know if this poor performance of Hiarcs on Blitz is expected, as
>it is a slow-searcher and the time control was really fast. Is Fritz really the
>best on Blitz?
>(Maybe Bruce Moreland does not agree with this...)
>
>A. Ponti


Hi Ponti,
  There was a post on here a couple of weeks ago that stated that Hiarcs and
some other programs don't work as well when playing increment games in engine-
vrs. engine matches on a single computer. Plus, even if this isn't true there
aren't near enough games played that will prove anything up to this point, as-
there needs to be several hundred games played to show any kind of proof which
engine "possibly" could be the strongest!

Best regards,
Terry



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