Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:19:41 10/05/99
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On October 05, 1999 at 14:34:15, Joshua Lee wrote: >On October 04, 1999 at 22:22:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 04, 1999 at 20:38:13, Joshua Lee wrote: >> >>>I was wonddering how far ahead Hitech searched to? How many full Ply ahead would >>>Hiarcs have to look to equal or surpass it? >> >> >>It could reach about 9 plies... todays programs are much faster... > >But are today's programs that much better? Bruce Moreland said a couple of years >ago his program ferret played Hitech and His program lost badly. Is this just >that the version of ferret that played then was fast but didn't have the >Knowledge it does now? We were talking 'speed' earlier. As far as knowledge, Hitech may have more than Ferret, I don't know. They used special-purpose hardware and did their eval in parallel to make it fast. As a result, it is possible that they had more. But tactically, they are not as strong as ferret of today. But Ferret will lose to genius on a P5/133 every now and then, often enough to make any of us grimace, but not often enough to think the P5/133 has any real chance to win many games at all...
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