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Subject: Good game as White vs Hiarcs 8

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 11:40:57 10/25/02

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Dear Katzparov,

Well played game.  I agree that Hiarcs 8.0 is not as aggressive as the Fritzes
or the Tigers but it plays a nice friendly game. If you like drawing then Hiarcs
8.0 is a good program. Fischer tells us that draws should not be counted.

Keep up the good work,

TJF

On October 25, 2002 at 05:29:08, Brian Katz wrote:

>Here was an uneventful draw by me vs Hiarcs 8.
>
>I have never even come close to drawing vs Fritz 6, Deep Fritz, Fritz 7 or Deep
>Fritz 7. I was able to win once vs Fritz 5 at game 30, at game 30, and  once in
>while I would obtain a draw.
>I find that Fritz 7 is much stronger than Hiarcs 8 on my computer.
>
>In fact, while using Hiarcs 8 on ICC with my computer account, the engine seems
>to struggle thru games. I recently had a game on ICC vs a human 2500 plus elo,
>where Hiarcs could not find anything to do and considered the game even.
>I then swithced to the Fritz 7 engine during the game, and in less then 30
>seconds Fritz' evaluation shot way up! Fritz sacced a piece an 5 moves later he
>resigned. That says a lot for Fritz 7.
>
>
>
>Katz,Brian (1933) - Hiarcs 8 (2530) [D18]
>40/80+30'/15+30'/15 Eatontown, 25.10.2002
>[Katz,Brian]
>
>1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 c6 5.a4 Bf5 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Bxc4 e6 8.0-0 Nb6
>9.Bd3 Bg4 10.h3 Bh5 11.a5 Nbd5 12.Be2 Bd6 13.a6 b6 14.Ne5 Bxe2 15.Qxe2 Nxc3
>16.bxc3 Bxe5 17.dxe5 Nd7 18.Rd1 Qc7 19.f4 0-0 20.Ba3 c5 21.Rd6 Rad8 22.Qb5 Nb8
>23.Rad1 Rxd6 24.exd6 Qc8 25.c4 Rd8 26.e4 Nc6 27.e5 Nd4 28.Rxd4 cxd4 29.c5 bxc5
>30.Bxc5 d3 31.Kf2 d2 32.Ke2 d1R 33.Kxd1 Qd7 34.Qxd7 Rxd7 35.Kd2 Kf8 36.Kc3 Ke8
>37.Kb4 f5 38.Kb5 g6 39.Bxa7 Rxa7 40.Kb6 Ra8 41.Kb7 Rd8 42.a7 ½-½
>
>[D]2qr2k1/p4ppp/Pp1Pp3/1Qp1P3/2Pn1P2/B6P/6P1/3R2K1 w
>[D]2qr2k1/p4ppp/Pp1Pp3/1Qp1P3/2PR1P2/B6P/6P1/6K1 b
>[D]2qr2k1/p4ppp/Pp1Pp3/1QP1P3/3p1P2/B6P/6P1/6K1 b
>[D]2qr2k1/p4ppp/P2Pp3/1QB1P3/3p1P2/7P/6P1/6K1 b
>[D]3r2k1/p2q1ppp/P2Pp3/1QB1P3/5P2/7P/6P1/3K4 w
>[D]4k3/p2r3p/P2Pp1p1/1KB1Pp2/5P2/7P/6P1/8 w
>[D]4k3/B2r3p/P2Pp1p1/1K2Pp2/5P2/7P/6P1/8 b
>[D]4k3/r6p/P2Pp1p1/1K2Pp2/5P2/7P/6P1/8 w
>[D]r3k3/1K5p/P2Pp1p1/4Pp2/5P2/7P/6P1/8 b
>
>Brian Katz



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