Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 23:02:13 05/13/02
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On May 14, 2002 at 01:29:59, Harald Faber wrote: >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? This is a non commercial project by E. Lunsen (Norway) with the help from chess interested people all over the world. This project started in nov-95 and after 6 years of work resulted in the "Lunsen Book". He gives special credit to (among others) Vladimir Sokolov at the University of Rostov. http://www.uib.no/people/pfvaf/chesslib/Lunsen.htm Best regards Sune
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