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Subject: Re: What caught your attention to buy HIARCS 8 ?!

Author: Victor Fernandez

Date: 05:53:53 05/12/02

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On May 12, 2002 at 08:30:08, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>I see that a lot of people are complaining about the poor performance of Hiarcs8
>vs other programs, but the reason to buy it was NOT because you saw HIARCS 8
>drawing againsg Deep Blue nor the other top Programs on the SSDF. Face it, the
>reason was because you saw how well it performed against GM Gulko and GM Smirin,
>plus the fact that it was a windows version of what you dreamed Rebel Century of
>being years ago. When Rebel Century is released people again will start their
>engines hoping to see a major improvement, but what you really will get is a
>good solid program just like HIARCS 8 that can play chess at 2700 against GM.
>
>Pichard.

You are right, Hiarcs 8 are a very strong program, optimized to play versus
humans and GM's, except, maybe, versus Fernando Villegas.

Victor



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