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Subject: Re: HIARCS 8 - Impressive!!

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 01:58:22 04/04/02

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Enrico,

>EXAMPLE #1
>----------
>
>[D]1NQ5/k1p1p3/7p/pP2P1P1/2P5/2pq4/1n6/6K1 w - -
>
>b6+!! is the key move
>
>All timings run on a PIII 750Mhz laptop:
>
>* HIARCS 7.32 takes 9 minutes 9 seconds to find b6+!! at 10/30 plies after
>58211K nodes
>
>* FAKE HIARCS 8 beta takes 33 minutes 15 seconds to find b6+!! at 11/31 plies
>after 207071K nodes
>
>* The real HIARCS 8 takes 24 seconds to find b6+!! at 8/31 plies after 2452K
>nodes

This is really impressive.  It's a classic threat of mate problem with the pawn
promotion twist.  Normally ChessMaster is The King of these positions (pun
intended!!) but on my 750 MHz P3 notebook it found b6+ in 1 min 14 secs.

I've been a fan of HIARCS since version 6 so I'm really looking forward to the
new release!  If I were you I'd post more similar positions just to whet the
appitites of the punters here at CCC!!

Regards,

Steve Maughan



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