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Subject: Re: If Hiarcs 8 is improved by 100 rating points...

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 01:50:53 04/23/02

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On April 23, 2002 at 04:35:44, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Uri,
>
>>The difference between the release time of Hiarcs8 and the previous version is
>>similiar to the difference between the release time of Fritz7 and Fritz5.32
>>
>>I see no reason to assume that similiar impeovement is impossible.
>>We need to wait and see.
>
>I agree.
>
>One point I would make is that Mark Uniacke has another full-time job working
>for Nortel Systems and a young family.  I know from what Eric Hallsworth has
>said in Selective Search that Mark hasn't had as much time over the last three
>years to work on HIARCS as he would have liked.  This is in contrast to Frans
>Morsch who spend 100% of his time developing Fritz.
>
>Having said all of that let's not rule out a spectacular increase in strength as
>Mark is clearly a talented programmer.  According to Eric, ChessBase have Hiarcs
>8 second only to Fritz 7 and approximately equal in strength to the Tigers!
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve
That would be a pity as it would not make many people want to bother to buy the
Hiarcs.
S.Taylor

• Re: If Hiarcs 8 is improved by 100 rating points... Steve Maughan 06:46:25 04/23/02
  • Re: If Hiarcs 8 is improved by 100 rating points... stuart taylor 17:23:05 04/23/02
    • Re: If Hiarcs 8 is improved by 100 rating points... Steve Maughan 00:15:41 04/24/02
      • Re: If Hiarcs 8 is improved by 100 rating points... Brian Katz 03:24:21 04/24/02
        • Re: If Hiarcs 8 is improved by 100 rating points... Uri Blass 04:11:31 04/24/02
• Re: If Hiarcs 8 is improved by 100 rating points... Jorge 06:08:33 04/23/02

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