Author: odell hall
Date: 16:36:10 09/21/99
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On September 21, 1999 at 19:18:33, Dann Corbit wrote: >On September 21, 1999 at 19:12:07, odell hall wrote: >[snip] >> I considered this possibility you mentioned, the only thing that makes me >>doubt that it is the chip is the fact, that when I play hiarcs7. in computer vs >>computer games on my machine it "destroyes" everything. I beat a friend of mine >>who has CM6000 in a six game match, this makes me think it is not the chip. >That's a puzzle. If it "destroys" all the competition, why do you believe that >their evals (which differ considerably) are better? If they really had a >superior evaluation at crucial points of the program, wouldn't they win all/most >of the time? Perhaps Hiarcs has a much greater positional understanding? > >I do know that (at least against computers) Hiarcs seems to fare very well. > >There may be some particular list of parameters where Hiarcs has a weakness. >Perhaps if you can specify exactly the conditions of the experiment we can >figure out what is going on. >[snip] Hi Dann When I first got hiarcs7.32 Like everyonelse I was quite excited with high expectations, infact hiarcs6 was one of my favourites, so I expected even more from hiarcs7. I first noticed this flaky Queensidee castleing bug in hiarcs when it lost a game against chessmaster, it castled uncessarily in a very dangerous position, and knowing the tacticaly gifted CM, it went on to slaughter hiarcs, however I was willing to write this off, as hiarcs began to beat rebel and other programs, but then I started to see this queenside castling tendency over and over. I am not saying that hiarcs is not strong, I am just saying that it has some obvious weakness which needs some attention. It doesn't appear to be as agressive as hiarcs6, I think that if money were on the line I could draw it atleast 3 out of ten games. When you refer to "conditions of the experiement" I am not sure I know what you mean, are you referring to the computer vs computer games, or the conditions of the game that I played? Time control was 40 moves in 1 hour, but when I play computer vs computer it is always at game\30. I looked at the nodes per second, Hiarcs 7.32 is doing 32,000 to 36,000 nodes per second on My K6-2 350. What's funny is that It destroys other programs, but barely beats me, Maybe it is just my style of play , I don't know. All I know is I get slaughtered by all my other programs, and although I have never beaten hiarcs I have several draws and often have positions where I should have won, which is never the case when I play Fritz, Chessmaster, Rebel, or Junior. I am not saying Hiarcs7.32 is a lousy program, I am just saying that I am not Impressed with it.
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