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Subject: Re: Two Possible Reasons Why Hiarcs8 is Getting bad reviews

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 17:42:55 05/13/02

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On May 13, 2002 at 20:36:44, John Reynolds wrote:

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> Firstly, I have heard reports of Phony Hiarcs being passed around, I suspect
>there are some people testing the Psuedo Hiarcs. My own results have shown
>Hiarcs8 to be exceptionally strong, comparable to Fritz for sure. Number 2: It
>may be that the book testers are using with Hiarcs is Bad, Personally I am using
>a 500 mb book I downloaded from the net. There is no other Logical explanation
>for all these negative Posts. Also it  is possible that the program is not being
>tested at longer time controls, all my games are atleast game in 60.  Any
>thoughts?
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Well this is interesting news, as one of the testers shows Hiarcs 8 not
performing very well at game in 60 minutes! Maybe some of the problems are due
to Hiarc's opening book!

Regards,
      Terry



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