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Subject: Re: Should I buy Hiarcs?

Author: Ralf Elvsén

Date: 03:16:47 07/05/00

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On July 05, 2000 at 01:27:22, blass uri wrote:

>On July 04, 2000 at 21:30:17, Eric Tom wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>I was thinking of buying Hiarcs but I hear there's a bug in it.  Is it serious?
>>Cause I think it is an awesome engine.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Eric
>
>If you use it for playing then I believe that the bug is serious in tournament
>time control but not in faster time control(it did good results at 40/40 and at
>blitz).

I would like to have a review of your arguments. I have a pretty big
collection of long time games with Hiarcs and I haven't noticed
anything special. But what am I to look for? Strange moves that can't
be reproduced in analysis mode? If you can describe a method by which
I check for these potential errors I will look through my games
if I can find the time. Hmm, when I think about it: I won a game
against Hiarcs at 2/40 once, and I couldn't reproduce some of the moves.
I remember you thought it was due to learning.

>
>I think that this is the reason that hiarcs had problems in the ssdf at
>tournament time control.
>
>If you use it for analysis then the bug is not serious because you can always
>clear the hash tables in analysis by loading another engine and loading hiarcs
>again.
>
>Uri



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