Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 11:11:02 09/04/03
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What is the donkey stuff?? On September 04, 2003 at 04:10:17, Alex Shalamanov wrote: >There appeared a very queer Hiarcs 9 engine over the net 2 or 3 months ago. At >least some of my friends who are keen on correspondence chess downloaded it >using the donkey stuff. Strangely enough, when testing it in classic time >controls versus Shredder 7.04 and Fritz 8.023 the strength of play was just a >bit lower than of the above. It should be noted, though, that this engine played >quite differently than Hiarcs 8. It was more attacking and king blood thirsty >than the predecessor. However, there was a very strange line "versyin falsa" in >the engine properties area. What could that mean on earth? Noone of use had any >idea. Was that a beta version or cracked pirate engine? Anyone knows? Of course, >now that a brand new Hiarcs 9 programme is on sale at Chessbase, that misterious >net journey matters very little. When scanning through the Uniake's interview to >Thorsten Chub placed at his site, I felt that the way he was describing his new >programme was very much alike the style that the net wanderer indulged in. It >seems anyway the engine was a beta Hiarcs 9.00? or something. It would be very >interesting,though, to see how high the new Hiarcs 9 would make on SSDF now.
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