Author: Jay Rinde
Date: 14:45:23 11/04/98
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Some time ago I had some strange problems with Hiarcs6..What happened is that Haracs did not make the best move. When I went back and tried again, it did make the best move. When I investigated, I found that it presented the better move with a better score than the move it made. In other words, at times it made the 2nd best move according to its own calculation. I don't know how often this happens. I only examined the situation this one time. One other problem I had was that Hiarcs blundered early in the game and had a lost postion by move 12. When I tried to reproduce what happened, I was unable to do it. I can only think that their is a bug somewhere in the engine that just crops up once in a great while. I think strange things happen sometimes with these complicated programs, and it is very difficult to duplicate them. In all, I do find Harcs6 a very fine product. On November 04, 1998 at 17:13:28, odell hall wrote: > >Hello Albert Silver > > > I set my hiarcs6 on monitor mode in hopes of finding the times and depth that >hiarcs used to make moves 18.ne2 and 21. Arc1. Strangely on move 18 after about >a minute I see that hiarcs considers it in the info window below the move list, >but it never adopts the move in it's main line. Maybe it decided to move at the >exact moment that the computer considered ne2. As for 21. ARC1 My hiarcs did not >even consider the move , altlhough i must admit I let it think for only five >minutes. It's beyond my understanding, I certainly did not fabricate the >moves!!! I notice I wasn't able to reproduce some moves in the hiarcs deen >hergott match. It may be for the same reasons (whatever they are) that I cannot >produce a move made by my own hiarcs!!. ON move 18. My hiarcs considered 18.a3 >for the longest time!! I think that would have been much better the the move it >actually played 18.Ne2 As to your comments about Anti-computer positions, I >think rebel 9 would have handled the position much, much better as I had rebel >analyze the game and it came up with much better moves. This game shows that >hiarcs is not the positional master people claim that it is, I think that title >belongs exclusively to Rebel
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