Author: blass uri
Date: 07:31:48 11/29/98
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On November 29, 1998 at 10:12:20, Ralph E. Carter wrote: >I have been playing some blitz games with Hiarcs 7 beta against Junior 5 and >Fritz 5. Results at game in 5 minutes on PII-400s: > >Hiarcs 7b – Junior 5 25-9 >Hiarcs 7b – Fritz 5 14-9 > >At first I didn’t expect to see such a slow searcher defeating this way the >NPS monsters, but it did. Taking into consideration that game/5 on a PII-400 >is roughly like game/90 on the 486/50 of not so long ago, the very good >scores of Hiarcs 7 may be less of a surprise. Dear Intel is helping the slow >searchers... You assume that slow searchers earns more from time than fast searchers but I do not think thatyour assumption is right I do not think that Hiarcs 7b can repeat the result 25-9 in tournament time control. at 40/40 Hiarcs7b lost 6:4 against Junior5 in enrique's games Uri > >I still believe that a relatively weak point of Hiarcs 7b is king safety. It >seems that Mark Uniacke improved it in the final version, but the beta does >things like this every now and then: > >In the 6th game Hiarcs7b-Junior5, after move 21 they reached this position: >1r1q1rk1/2n1bpp1/2b1p2p/3pP3/1p3P2/pP2B1N1/P1PQB1PP/1K1RR3 w - - 0 22 >Here H7b played 22.c3, which looks quite unsound to me. With the rook in the >open b column and these mean looking bishops, black could try to build a >smashing attack. > >This is not a problem that Hiarcs has all that frequently. I saw it no more >than 3 or 4 times in over 100 games, but it still is a weakness. When it >happens, against other programs Hiarcs 7b can get away with murder, but >against humans I wonder. > >Enrique
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