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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 8 results @ G/60'

Author: eric guttenberg

Date: 16:58:10 05/12/02

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Jim,

I appreciate very much these games you have published. It may be
true that several hundred games are necessary to reach any firm conclusions
but these 76 games are enough to raise some firm doubts. If hiarcs 8
were any kind of improvement over hiarcs 7.32, it is highly unlikely
that you would have gotten such disappointing results. EVERY program
has a an occasional bad result but the consistency in your results
suggests that Hiarcs 8 may simply be a notch below the top programs
in comp-comp play. And after a 3 year wait from H7.32, I find that
very surprising.

Of course, Hiarcs 8 (I did buy it) can still beat me up 10 times out of 10,
but I don't see the point of putting out a new product that doesn't seem
to be an improvement over the last one.

eric



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