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Subject: Re: Will the Real Hiarcs 6.0 Please Stand Up!!

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 01:14:08 11/04/98

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On November 04, 1998 at 02:33:11, blass uri wrote:

>Hiarcs did not try to do nothing in the queen side.
>I think that many programs do not know to play this opening
>and you have a chance to win other top programs in this opening
>
>I think that programs are less stable than human and a 2400 program can play
>sometimes like a 1800 player and sometimes like a 2600 player (this is a
>question of luck in the choice of the opening).
>
>I believe that a 2200 player that knows the weaknesses of the top programs has a
>good chance to win them in a match.

The above is obviously true.  The game was a KID with the computer as white.
This is a very hard opening to play as a computer, and it has nothing to do with
the hardware the program is running on.  The opening is tailor made for
anti-computer play, if white isn't careful black seals the k-side and mates.

bruce



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