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Subject: Re: Official response to recent "HIARCS 8 Beta" claims...

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 07:39:59 01/04/02

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On January 04, 2002 at 04:01:03, enrico carrisco wrote:

>On January 04, 2002 at 01:44:21, Thomas Mayer wrote:
>
>>Hi Enrico,
>>
>>>Those of you that are interested in seeing the *REAL* HIARCS 8 Alpha play, it
>>>can been seen on ICC as Hiarcs8x.  It will also be competing in the CCT4.
>>
>>by the way: it seems that you and Marc clearly have a winboard engine or
>>something like that - is there any hope that with the next upcoming Hiarcs a
>>winboard version will be included ? I really hope that - I would also buy just
>>the winboard version if possible... but I am a hardcore winboard so I may not
>>speak for everyone, anyway I like the idea to use Hiarcs not only on it's own
>>GUI but also under ChessAssistant, ChessPartner, ChessMaster, ChessAcademy - all
>>those GUIs with a quality winboard-adapter - And under the GUI of MY choice...
>>
>>Greets, Thomas
>
>
>Sorry to disappoint you.. :)  I am using Ebbi's WinBoard <--> Auto232 adapter.
>HIARCS 8 Alpha is running on a second computer within the ChessBase GUI playing
>via Auto232.
>
>I have brought the idea up to Mark though...  The main problem is the opening
>book.  ChessBase GUI handles all of this -- a winboard version would require
>routines for this, and I don't know if the ChessBase .ctg files are easy to work
>with or not.
>
>-elc.

The opening book for a winboard version of Hiarcs 8 could be written in another
format and be much smaller that the .ctg book. This would solve the above
problem.
I would love to see Hiarcs 8 as a CB engine and a WB engine, i would buy them
both in a blink of the eye, even if sold seperatly :)

Regards
Jonas



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