Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 22:43:49 12/10/97
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On December 10, 1997 at 17:08:44, William Dozier wrote: >Greetings to all:How maney of you feel that you have got rip off by the >people who put Hiarcs 6.0 for the Mac. The two people I have corresponded with who purchased Hiarcs 6.0 Mac seemed very happy with it. > And im dead seriouse. Why? >because the new ppc version is no better than the 1.0 version, and >seemed to be at same speed as the old version. Something is badly wrong if the PPC version isn't faster on your machine. Try this experiment: - Set "Level" to Infinite. - Under "Options", set "Max Depth" to 8 - Under "Options", set "Book=Off" - move 1. d4 on the board, and see how long HIARCS takes to reply. On my 7300/180, - HIARCS 1.0 Mac took 31 seconds, even using Speed Doubler 2. - HIARCS 6.0 Mac took 6 seconds. >It doesnt seemed to >recalled anything after playing 20 hrs games, black or white. You are checking the book learning feature? They have been coy about how that works, and I haven't done tne experiments myself. It is possible that it doesn't update it's book from games against itself, only when another player beats it. In any event, you can try comparing the current opening book file against that stored on the CD when you think that HIARCS should have learned something. >How do you >use the data base file? Infact o got better performance out of the 68k >version, it doesnt recalled its past mistakes. Im kind of ticked off >because i dont think im getting my moneys worth. Perhps you guys got >money to throw away, i dont, especially when a product is not what its >suppose to be. And the other problems is that Hiarcs for the Mac never >is available, and the email always come back. Have you tried: hiarcs.mac@dial.pipex.com >I feel that i gave them my >money for the name Hiarcs, the quality is down hill. So please if anyone >can check the old and new product and please let me know if indeed i got >rip off or i dont know what im doing as far as Hiarcs is concern. I have both the old and new products, and I've spent a good amount of time with each. I've run problem tests, speed tests, and comparisons with HIARCS 6.0 Mac. Everything I've done indicates that HIARCS 6.0 is a much faster, stronger product that HIARCS 1.0. If you'd like to discuss this further, email me at: fowell@netcom.com. By the way, check out my web site: http://members.aol.com/Macchess/
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