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Subject: Re: Will the real hiarcs6 please stand up one more time!!!

Author: Ralph E. Carter

Date: 11:43:45 11/09/98

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On November 09, 1998 at 12:15:08, odell hall wrote:

>
>On November 09, 1998 at 04:28:18, Graham Laight wrote:
>
>>Again - it is fine to criticise the play of Hiarcs, but if you accuse it of
>>having a rating which is too high, it is incumbent on you to explain how its
>>rating could have become so high in the first place.
>
>
>I cannot explain the high rating of hiarcs6 other than to say that it's rating
>is exclusively based on games against computers only. I wonder if it's rating
>would be so high in games against humans? I doubt it very seriously if it cannot
>beat a 1882 player consistently how is it going to handle international master
>and grandmasters? When I first got hiarcs6 I was in love with the programming
>praising it's human play, until I started seeing all the holes in it's game!!

So, what are its holes, in your opinion?



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