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Subject: Re: Two Possible Reasons Why Hiarcs8 is Getting bad reviews

Author: John Merlino

Date: 19:30:32 05/13/02

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On May 13, 2002 at 20:42:55, Terry Ripple wrote:

>On May 13, 2002 at 20:36:44, John Reynolds wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Firstly, I have heard reports of Phony Hiarcs being passed around, I suspect
>>there are some people testing the Psuedo Hiarcs. My own results have shown
>>Hiarcs8 to be exceptionally strong, comparable to Fritz for sure. Number 2: It
>>may be that the book testers are using with Hiarcs is Bad, Personally I am using
>>a 500 mb book I downloaded from the net. There is no other Logical explanation
>>for all these negative Posts. Also it  is possible that the program is not being
>>tested at longer time controls, all my games are atleast game in 60.  Any
>>thoughts?
>---------------
>Well this is interesting news, as one of the testers shows Hiarcs 8 not
>performing very well at game in 60 minutes! Maybe some of the problems are due
>to Hiarc's opening book!
>
>Regards,
>      Terry

Perhaps, but you shouldn't have to download a 500MB opening book for the program
to play well.

jm



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