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

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 09:48:37 05/14/02

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On May 14, 2002 at 10:45:34, Jorge 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?
>
>I am currently running a matches between Hiarcs732 vs. 8.0, using Powerbook2001
>(power.ctg) for both engines at 3'/game on one computer, and 2'+10"/game on
>another. So far, it is pretty even at 3' time (130 games so far), but at 2' 10"
>control, Hiarcs8 has a much wider margin of wins! I will post the results later,
>after 200 games are played.
>
>regards,
>jorge



The LunsenBook  contains only games in which both players have an Elo rating
over 2200 whereas Power Book by Chessbase contains also games in which one
player has an Elo rating over 2000 and the other player has an Elo rating below
2000. Short and incomplete games were also exluded as well as games containing
tactical opening blunders. The opening book represents the closest possible
approach to ideal proportion between quality of playing strength and
comprehensiveness of quantity of included

http://www.uib.no/people/pfvaf/chesslib/LunsenBook.htm

Jorge




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