Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 10:18:14 12/08/99
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On December 08, 1999 at 07:00:47, James T. Walker wrote: >On December 08, 1999 at 04:28:43, Rajendran Ramachandran wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I have Pentium III 500MHz 128 Mb computer and my son has tested at various time >>control the following engines. >> >>Hiarcs 7.32 >>Fritz 5.32 >>Fritz6 >>Crafty16.6 >> >>As far as I have seen nothing comes close to Hiarcs in any sort of time control. >> >>I have copied the general book for the rest of engines to my hard drive and >>enabled the book learning as well. The rest are showing some sort of resistance >>now. >> >>Hiarcs prefers to play on PIII computer with ample RAM. There is no point >>testing it in AMD or other processors. Knowing this very well, many try to still >>evaluate Hiarcs in such computers, just to put him down! >> >>raj > > >Hello raj, >In my opinion you are wrong in your assessment. First of all, Hiarcs would >prefer to play on the fastest computer available as would any chess program. >Why do you believe the AMD processors are unfavorable to Hiarcs. When I compare >the NPS of the PII-333 to the AMD K6-3-450 the AMD comes out on top. On the >PII-333 it get 34Kn/s and on the AMD K6-3-450 it gets 55Kn/s. The Mhz ratio is >about 35% faster but the NPS of Hiarcs goes up by 61%. This tells me that >Hiarcs loves the AMD. Also after about 2000 games I have found that Hiarcs does >not like max ram at all time controls. Your testing on one computer will favor >Hiarcs because of it's hash table set up. My testing shows at Blitz and also at >G/25 Hiarcs comes in behind Fritz 5.32 and also Fritz 6 so far. But they are >all within a few points after more than 7000 total games. I have found Hiarcs >is superior to all programs at G/1 or G/2. Again I believe it has something to >do with the way it uses hash tables. >Jim Walker Very definately yes on G/1 G/2 for Hiarcs, very very good at those controls Wayne
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