1). Didn't Rybka 1 tear away from the stagnation, and all the other programs of the time?
2). Didn't Rybkas 2 and 3 take it much further than even that?
3). Didn't the clones provide a challenge to Rybka 3 (even if it was stolen property FROM Rybka)?
4). Don't we see that Hiarcs 14 is atleast as strong as the first clones which were not weaker than Rybka 3?
5).And that Hiarcs is now the strongest of even the present upgraded Junior, Shredder, Fritz, etc? i.e. the old programs which used to take turns in leading the field for many years, before Rybka came in (which also included Genius, Rebel, Chess master, Tiger etc.
Everyone agrees with 1-5? [esp, no. (4 and) 5, which is my main comment]
S.Taylor wrote:You dispute that Hiarcs is strongest from Hiarcs, Shredder, Junior, Fritz? (and Chessmaster, Tiger, Rebel, Genius)kranium wrote:to draw such broad conclusions after so few games is naive to say the least...S.Taylor wrote:So Hiarcs seems to be the strongest from the oldies like Fritz, Shredder, Junior, and obviously also the contemporaries of those times which are not continued at all.
Hiarcs overlaps some of the "clones" too, which is a big achievement, if it itself did not benefit from clone technology, which caused a whole generation to get above Rybka 3, which was a big leap ahead, ever since Rybka 1 came out.
So Hiarcs is clearly stronger than Rybka 3, withOUT clone.
Frankly, I don't really know what all this means, however. But it sounds good.
Even if Hiarcs DOES now take whatever it wants to from Cloneworld, it hides behind the reputation that it does NOT.
