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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:30:15 08/28/99

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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


He may use the "null move observation" here and there.. but he doesn't use it in
an uncontrolled way as does Fritz, Crafty, and a few others...  IE I apply null
move _everywhere_...



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