Author: Harald Faber
Date: 22:29:59 05/13/02
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On May 13, 2002 at 22:30:32, John Merlino wrote: >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 Hiarcs 8 comes with an own, dedicated (! maintained by Eric Hallsworth in >1 year) opening book which is already large enough (280MB), there is absolutely no need to download a 500MB book. I have not seen Hiarcs playing badly. Hiarcs sometimes sees a desaster to the own king later than the attacking programs (there are some smart examples I have seen during my running Hiarcs8-GambitTiger 2 aggressive match but Hiarcs can keep the edge, at the moment 3.5-3.5) but this is no issue of the opening book. In this regard, where does this 500MB book come from, thinking of copyright? Did someone create it or is this an old powerbook?
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