Author: blass uri
Date: 07:32:13 02/08/00
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On February 08, 2000 at 09:49:12, Albert Silver wrote: >On February 08, 2000 at 03:39:22, Bas Hamstra wrote: > >>On February 08, 2000 at 03:20:38, James Robertson wrote: >> >>>On February 07, 2000 at 22:51:13, Christophe Theron wrote: >>> >>>>On February 07, 2000 at 14:24:04, Albert Silver wrote: >>>> >>>>>On February 07, 2000 at 14:05:16, James Robertson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On February 07, 2000 at 13:34:19, James A. Tackett wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> There seems to be a strong consensus that Junior 6a is the strongest >>>>>>>program on the market. Yet, we have seen two matches where Hiarcs 7.32 (my >>>>>>>favorite program, but I've ordered J6)holds even with it. Is this a statistical >>>>>>>fluk? Was Hiarcs lucky? >>>>>> >>>>>>Some programs just have problems with other programs. >>>>>> >>>>>>James >>>>> >>>>>Yep. Try playing a match between Genius 3 (that's right, ancient number 3), >>>>>though with a newer book (like the one that comes with Genius 6.5) and Fritz 5 >>>>>or 6 and see what happens. I think the results may surprise. >>>>> > >>>> >>>>What happens? >>>> >>> >>>Something surprising. >> >>You mean Fritz will win 8-2? > >Or lose 4-6, with both (original Fritz 6 and Genius 3 with Genius 6.5 opening >book) running on identical K6-2/350s each with 128 Mb ram. TC was only game in >45 though. Completely unconclusive I agree, but hardly expected. Genius managed >to win two completely drawn endings in this series. > > Albert Silver I do not find the result very surprising because Genius3 is known to be a good program at fast time control. Genius3(p90) won kasparov 1.5:.5 at G/25 in the past The difference between Fritz6 and Genius3 is probably not more than 100 elo at tournament time control and I guess the difference is even smaller at 45 minutes/game Uri
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