Author: Mark Young
Date: 15:28:12 09/02/99
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On September 02, 1999 at 06:48:46, blass uri wrote: >On September 02, 1999 at 04:41:28, Steve Schooler wrote: > >>The Chessbase support notes indicate that the Fritz 5.32 engine is 10 >>times faster than the HiArcs 7.32 engine, because of HiArcs extensive >>"positional library". Based on recent postings, HiArcs 7.32 seems >>(generally) more powerful, despite it's "slowness". I believe further >>progress may be made by "merging" the two engines (algorithms). > >It is not truth that Fritz is 10 times faster than Hiarcs >You can be sure that if you give Hiarcs 10 minutes per position and you give >Fritz 1 minute per position than hiarcs will be clearly better in tactics(I am >not talking about positional understanding). > >Fritz is calculating more nodes per second but it is irrelevant because the >question is the time you need to see tactics and not the number of nodes per >seconds > >I suggest you to ignore chessbase notes because they are misleading You are correct, but I think the chessbase site does state that Fritz is 10x faster. I took it only to mean in pure node count only, not tactical speed. > >Uri
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