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Subject: Re: H7b, from our freind Enrique...

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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