Author: Chessfun
Date: 01:47:36 09/26/00
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On September 26, 2000 at 04:16:22, Terry Ripple wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have Hiarcs7.32 with the upgrade patch for it's book and Hiarc's will never
>play 1.d4 d5 (2.Bg5) on its second move with white. I looked in hiarcs book and
>observed that this move is there but the probability to play it is "0".
Sorry but with normal book settings as loaded, the possibility is 1.1%.
not 0. Plus in the specific game you refer to game 3 Hiarcs claims itself
to be winning by 0.16 out of book.
>Also, i noticed some of the games Hiarcs is coming out of the opening poorly,so
>it must be its lousey book that is the blame for its poor play in those games!
You didn't look close enough, Hiarcs comes out of book better in a majority of
games.
Here is what Hiarcs thinks of the 11 positions after book.
Score Hiarcs W/L
[Annotator "-0.10"] White Losing
[Annotator "-0.20"] Black Winning
[Annotator "0.16"] White Winning
[Annotator "-0.76"] Black Winning big
[Annotator "0.12"] White Winning
[Annotator "0.19"] Black Losing
[Annotator "-0.21"] White Losing
[Annotator "0.45"] Black Losing
[Annotator "0.65"] White Winning Big
[Annotator "-0.03"] Black Winning
[Annotator "0.41"] White Winning
So we have Hiarcs +7 -4 most of these are minimal.
The two biggest margins out of book more than +0.5 went
to Hiarcs games 4 and 9 and Hiarcs lost 4 and drew 9.
I see nothing here that indicates that Hiarcs lost due to book.
>Then another point is that almost anything can happen in just a few games played
If you read my original statement "Regardless of the time controls/number
of games etc the score is very impressive". I agree anything can happen in a few
games but in this case this is what happened.
Thanks.
Sarah.
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