Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:00:05 11/12/00
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On November 12, 2000 at 11:17:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 12, 2000 at 01:39:07, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>On November 11, 2000 at 21:30:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On November 11, 2000 at 18:36:22, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>On November 11, 2000 at 18:22:44, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>>> >>>>>wrong >>>> >>>>I remember that you were one of the people who proved that hiarcs has king >>>>safety problems by posting games that hiarcs7.32 lost against chess system tal >>>>by king attack. >>>> >>>>Uri >>> >>>Thorsten changes his opinion more frequently than the wind direction changes >>>at the North Pole. >> >>this is important if you want to combine all new data with the old data. >>hiarcs7.32 has not changed for a while why new programs have been on the market. >>in the moment it is not anymore state-of-the-art because others have come >>later. >> >>but at its own time, hiarcs7.32 was not that bad, the dos version was IMO >>better, >>but nevertheless, the program contained a lot of knowledge bob. > >Never denied that. But it had king safety problems. This was discussed here >in the past. Against aggressive programs and against aggressive humans. Being >"old" doesn't mean it goes from being good at king safety to bad at king safety. >That is an "age-neutral" characteristic. > > >>mark always tried to bring much knowledge into the program. >>i liked this. > > >So did I. But like all program authors, he overlooked something important >because auto-playing against computers doesn't show it to be a problem if >computers don't attack. I do not think that it is the case. I remmeber that Hiarcs7 lost against Junior5 in Enrique's games because of king safety problems. I remember that I read that mark tried to correct the problem without success and the new version played worse so he decided not to use it. Uri
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