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Subject: Re: Match Hiarcs6 Mac - MacChess 5.0

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 09:52:29 01/14/99

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On January 14, 1999 at 09:50:20, Nouveau wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I finished a match between Hiarcs 6 for Mac and MacChess 5.0 on two performa
>5260 (PPC 603e, 120 Mhz, no cache). The games were in 40mvs/2h.
>
>The result is : Hiarcs-MacChess = 8-2 (+7 =2 -1)
>
>I'm very impressed by the positional play of Hiarcs : MacChess was often 2 plies
>deeper (in the middlegame the average was 6-7 for Hiarcs and 8-9 for MacChess),
>but it was a complete domination of Hiarcs. Hiarcs is also very (very) good in
>the endings.
>
>I really thought that MacChess had a chance on such a slow machine.
>Hiarcs must be impressive on a G3 !!
>
>I can post the games if you want, or e-mail them to those who desire.
>My e-mail : nouvejf@agf.fr
>
>Jeff

Jeff,

You did this manually, right?  You don't have a secret automated system, by any
chance?

MacChess is pretty strong, but Hiarcs is one of the best.  I'm surprised
MacChess was able to win a game.

Will




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