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Subject: Re: HYBRIDing Fritz and HiArcs

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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