Author: Ralph E. Carter
Date: 07:58:41 11/29/98
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On November 29, 1998 at 10:31:48, blass uri wrote: > >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 I'm sorry I did not clearly credit Enrique Irazoqui for this data and opinion. I posted it here for anyone interested in H7. Y'all go see more from Enrique on rgcc. mongrel 1803 USCF
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