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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 8

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 16:28:40 05/11/02

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On May 11, 2002 at 17:55:28, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>After some games against H8 and looking what other people here has found in
>Comp-Comp games, it seems -IT SEEMS- H8 is a sad disapppointment. In my last
>game against him he even chose, with white,  such an inferior openning as
>Ponziani, slow enough to let black an easy and fast equal game. I wonder if we
>have here one of these problems, or perhaps several at the same time:
>A) a book with inferior lines you should not have in any decent book as a
>"regular" book, but at most as curiosity for an special call.
>B) a not so good engine, broken somewere
>C) a bug
>D) sheer bad luck to he moment
>
>But I guess a patch will come soon...
>fernando

Patches can always help, if there's a will.
But has it yet been checked out if Hiarcs is equal to the best at tournament
timings on good hardware, and even the top at 30 minutes or longer per move? Or
is that also wishful thinking?
If the above IS true, then I'm certainly getting it. If not, maybe not.
S.Taylor



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