Author: Albert Silver
Date: 12:32:09 11/04/98
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On November 03, 1998 at 14:03:42, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >An afternoon with Hiarcs 7 beta gave me a few first impressions. There are some >interface improvements, like keyboard shortcuts, showing NPS (about 10 times >less than Fritz 5) and hashtables usage, and a few more refinements here and >there, but most of the work went to the engine. It seems quicker and knows more. >It feels quite a bit stronger and preserves the active, "common sense", natural >kind of playing characteristic of Hiarcs. So far, I am quite impressed by what I >see, including 2 victories in the first 2 games it played (40/40 on 2 PII-400), >with very fine endgame playing. Mark didn’t waste the last 2 years. He claims an >improvement of about 60 Elo points, and for what I have seen so far it might be >true. > >For the bad news, Hiarcs 7 is still a 16 bit DOS program that has to be loaded >from DOS (no himem.sys) if you want to give it the maximum hashtables (63 MB). >Under Windows it gets 128 K. Same looks of H6, which means clear and >comfortable, but nothing to write home about. Like Hiarcs 6, it seems to be rock >stable. > >But the engine... I have always been a fan of Hiarcs, and this one seems to be >the best of all. > >Enrique Who were the opponents and could you post the games? Keep us informed!
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