Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:21:36 11/12/00
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On November 12, 2000 at 12:00:05, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I think that he decided to do only some small changes that did not solve the problem because the changes that solved the problem created bigger problems. This is what I remmeber from Enrique's posts at that time. Uri
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