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Subject: Re: Hiarcs7.32 vrs. Comet B04, 1min/Game = Score: 56-4, Great 1min. player!

Author: blass uri

Date: 23:51:04 08/27/99

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On August 28, 1999 at 00:51:03, Terry Ripple wrote:

>On August 27, 1999 at 23:10:54, blass uri wrote:
>
>>On August 27, 1999 at 22:59:27, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On August 27, 1999 at 17:49:40, Terry Ripple wrote:
>>>
>>>>Blitz:1'/Game  1999
>>>>
>>>>                 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
>>>>1   Hiarcs 7.32  11110111½½111111½1111111111111½11111111111111111111111½1111½
>>>>2   Comet B04    00001000½½000000½0000000000000½00000000000000000000000½0000½
>>>>
>>>>I'am using a AMD K6-2/266 and set 1.024Mb HT. (Played on a single PC) Now i -
>>>>know why they say Hiarcs is the best 1 min. blitz player in the world!
>>>>
>>>> If anyone would like to see the games, i will be glad to post them here in pgn.
>>>>
>>>>Best regards,
>>>>Terry
>>>
>>>
>>>Just so you know, 1 min per game, same computer, no pondering, is _highly_
>>>unfavorable to null-move programs.  Your computer is already very slow.  And
>>>the shallow search depths will be a real pain for programs using the null-move
>>>for efficiency...
>>
>>
>>Hiarcs7.32 is probably a null-move program.
>>It was proved here that hiarcs could not find a good move from a game probably
>>because of this reason(after doing the good move Hiarcs understood that it was a
>>good move).
>>
>>Uri
>
>Hi bob and Uri,
>  I don't understand because you say Hiarcs is a null-move program and this is
>bad for it, but why did it do so well in all these 1 min. matches? Please help
>me to understand, thankyou!
>
>Regards,Terry

I did not say that null move is bad for 1 minute games.
Bob said it and he meant that Comet is a null move program so I replied that I
know that Hiarcs is probably a null move program so it cannot be the reason for
the good results of Hiarcs in 1 minutes games.

Uri



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