Author: odell hall
Date: 23:58:55 11/08/98
Hi CCC A few days ago I posted a victory against hiarcs 6 at 40/2hrs, my uscf rating is 1882. I Felt personally that something was wrong with my machine or hash tables (cyrix233 16MB). A few of you responded that basically I was lucky because i got hiarcs in an anti computer type of position. I was ready to write off my victory as due to these very reasons, until I played hiarcs again today!!. First let me say that Prior to purchasing hiarcs I basically trained exlusively with the rebel programs. Out of the last three years and hundreds of games I only mananaged One win! against rebel8 and no wins against rebel9!. Yet I managed to defeat hiarcs once and draw in a won position without one week!! Either hiarcs is an incredibly weak program or I have become a grandmaster overnight. Let me say that I possess no bias at all against hiarcs in fact I just one week ago praised the program all over the newgroups. The below game in another upset, although I did not win this game(was a draw) the point is that a 1882 should never have gotten such a position against a sopposed 2500! Yet I hear praise about hiarcs6 so-called positional play! 12..0-0-0 ?? was just lousy. This game also illustrates how much I need to work on my own game as I should have easily won this. [Event "Match 2"] [Site "OK City"] [Date "1998.11.09"] [Round "?"] [White "Hiarcs6 P233 16MB"] [Black "O.Hall Game/60"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2545"] [BlackElo "1882"] [ECO "A58"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. bxa6 g6 6. Nf3 Bxa6 7. Nc3 Bg7 8. e4 Bxf1 9. Rxf1 d6 10. Bg5 O-O 11. Qc2 Nbd7 12. O-O-O Qa5 13. Nd2 Rfb8 14. f3 Qb4 15. Nb3 c4 16. Nd4 Ne5 17. Nc6 Nd3+ 18. Rxd3 cxd3 19. Qd2 Qc4 20. Nxb8 Rxb8 21. Rd1 Qb4 22. g4 Nd7 23. f4 Nc5 24. e5 f6 25. Bh4 dxe5 26. Rf1 e4 27. Re1 f5 28. Bxe7 Qc4 29. Bxc5 Qxc5 30. Kd1 Rc8 31. gxf5 gxf5 32. Re3 Kh8 33. Rg3 Bxc3 34. Qxc3+ Qxc3 35. bxc3 Rxc3 36. d6 Rc8 37. a4 Rd8 38. Rg5 e3 39. Rxf5 Rxd6 40. Re5 e2+ 41. Kd2 Kg7 42. a5 Kf6 43. a6 Rxa6 44. Kxd3 Ra3+ 45. Kxe2 Ra2+ 46. Ke3 Rxh2 1/2-1/2
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