Author: Tina Long
Date: 16:30:18 04/13/00
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Thanks for this post Fernando. Assuming your info. is correct. This really looks like a big step foreward for Hiarcs. Now I only hope that the product is reliable (bugs), that there is good internet support (like Chessbase, Rebel & Tigger/Lokasoft), and that the Price is reasonable. Hiarcs is never (maybe once?) on top of SSDF, and I think that the slow speed is responsible there, but Hiarcs 6 & 7 certainly play very (my words) "Well considered" chess. My feel is that Hiarcs is still equal with the best in Human play. And even better than engine improvements, a new GUI to colour in & explore. Waiting, waiting Tina Long On April 13, 2000 at 17:18:50, Fernando Villegas wrote: >On April 13, 2000 at 13:02:13, BadGandalf wrote: > >>Literally taken from Gambit-Soft news: 'Rumour has it that there might be a new >>HIARCS in about 6 weeks. We heard it from an old customer, but do not know how >>reliable his information is. - 13.4.2000' >> >>Hiarcs website doesn't say anything and has been unchanged for very long. >>Anybody knows anything about this ? >> >>Regards, >> >>Ignacio >Hi Ignacio: >Now that at least there are rumours, I think that I can uncover some of the >information given to me under word of silence -people exagerates the more the >less really important the issue is- and that I have since some time ago. It is >this: >a) It will be -or would be- a windows version, as anyway anybody could presume. >b) It would not be named Hiarcs 8 or something, but with a more flashy name. >c) It will handle very big hash tables. CD-Rom version, of course. >d) an incredible -they say so- strong engine that has been being tested with GM >or IM kind of players. British players, guess whom. >e) endings TB created by Uniacke with original heuristics. >f) Not sure -my source was very doubtfoull about this- but it seems some effort >was given to get a really better GUI, not the current almost Hercules breed. . >G) tutorial capacities far beyond the usual in the industry. > >I would like to make clear that I cannot ensure nothing of all this. Maybe I am >just victim of a joke. I just give voice to something said to me by a guy that >usually know what is happening in british CD pressing industry. Probably he >could lose his job If I give his name. And I would lose a friend. Maybe I will >lose him the same just for this. I Hope no. After all, this is not nuclear >weaponry. Anyway, true or not, in only some weeks we will know for certain. >Ciao >Fernando
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