Author: Tina Long
Date: 04:22:08 11/09/99
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On November 08, 1999 at 19:51:13, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >Looses from Hiarcs 7.32 If I was going to play Rebel Century against Hiarcs 732, I'd set Rebel's "Knowledge" to 500 (highest, slowest), and watch them both play at around 20k-50k nps. (I wrote that sentence last & then cut/paste it to the top) I play 100% Human vs Computer. Usually unofficial about 10min/game (humans allowed to take back). Occassionally, been doing this since I was six years old, Human book moves are manually enterred, computer gets about 30mins to 12hours per move (human gets many many takebacks) game goes back and foreward (literally) for days/weeks until human eventually wins, or until game regresses to opening line which is thrown out. Between ages, dunno, damn dope's ruined my short AND long term memory, say 11 and 15, I played against Fidelity, Sargon, Scyces (Sp?), Novag, ....I played only white Bird's (1.f4) & black Dutch's (1.d4 f4), and wrote a thesis which proved to the ability of these .2 to 5 mhz dinosours analysis ability, that those openings are really f#$%ed. (then I discovered rooting & got a life) Anyway, what I'm trying to get at is that MY judgement of computer strength is based only on ME (probably 1800-1900 Aussie, thats 2100-2300 ELO :} & 2500-2600 USA :}) playing these machines. And what I set out to say was "Hiarcs is really good eh!" I hated the GUI on Hiarcs 6 (my first Hiarcs) but was overwhelmed by my inability to beat the bugger at blitz & friendly games. Rebel 8 9 & 10 seem to beat me more technically (consistantly grinding me away during the game) while Hiarcs (now 732) beats me with unforseen imagination, (shit looking moves that kick me in the guts & send me clicking angrily on the take-backer). I'm a little glad Rebel isn't in the SSDF at the moment, as it lets me barrack openly for Hiarcs to top the ratings. I used to be a big Lang fan & wish for him to bring out a NEW Genius. I don't favour Fritz as it seems to win by sheer looking (slightly blindly) at lotsa positions (like CM6k). MChess tried & tried & nearly did. I hate Chessmaster on principal but don't know what the principal is (I also hated Alan Moffat, mazdas, & hate Manly Warringa & of course Brisbane - you know what I mean Micheal - there're still good but I hate them). I think of Nimzo & Junior as the smartarse new kids, and have a very interested eye on the new kid Tiger (Therone, not Woods) who's threatening to race to the top (will he get there & then be "Langed" because he can't improve his unique specialities that got him there). Until last month I rated Hiarcs732 as the "smartest" player around, & if deep blue was challenging a PC I'd use Hiarcs ( & expect that Fritz & chessmaster to do worst of the top lot against Blue). Now I wonder if Rebel (knowledge=500) is as smart as Hiarcs. Shep????? Test Suites????? times up again, gotta go see Bella's new posts See you guys Tina
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