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Subject: Re: Could you try a brief experiment with Hiarcs 8?

Author: Chris Taylor

Date: 05:13:53 05/15/02

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On May 15, 2002 at 05:14:21, Vine Smith wrote:

>Hi --
>
>This is in reference to some issues about the book, particularly a recent post
>by Harald Faber. I had seen a game posted (at game in 30 minutes) where Hiarcs
>as Black played 1.e4 e6 2.Qe2 Nc6 3.Nf3 Be7? Faber says that when he looks at
>the Hiarcs book (I think he's just using the Chessbase GUI function), it says
>Hiarcs will always play 2...c5. For this purpose, the time control and system
>speed are unimportant, just try playing an actual game from the position after
>White's second move, and see if it immediately responds with 2...c5. If so, I
>suppose the game I saw posted was played with a different book, or is spurious.
>If not, then the program is not understanding its own book correctly.
>Thanks in advance, if you have the time for this.
>
>Regards,
>Vine Smith

Playing against Hiarcs 8 with
1. e4  e6
2. Qe2  c5........It played this move sort of expecting either f4 or Nf3 as
Whites third.  Nimzo 7.32 gui......Identical in H8.gui

Looking for 2....c5 and browsing the book we see
N=4182 and 50% chance of being played
2....Nc6 has N=261 with 49%
Also in is 2....Ne7 N=257 50%

The plot thickens..

Chris



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