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Subject: Re: Hiarcs7 is weak at endgames(ignore the previous reply)

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 23:02:57 01/27/99

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On January 27, 1999 at 17:49:51, blass uri wrote:

>
>On January 27, 1999 at 14:26:46, Tony Hedlund wrote:
>
>>
>>Hi!
>>
>>We've got 206 new games at my URL:
>>
>>http://home.interact.se/~w100107/welcome.htm
>
>I looked at some games and I found that Hiarcs7 is weak at endgames
>It lost game 63 against Genius5(p90) in a dead draw position and it could not
>win game 77 with a knight advantage
>
>Hiarcs7 played 60.h4 and lost in game 63 in the following position:
>8/5p2/r3k3/4P1p1/6N1/5PPP/8/5K2 w - - 0 1

This looks like a tough one for computers.
I'm guessing that computers might play the poor move h4 because they see
that after the exchange that they will get an h pawn to to the sixth rank.
What do other programs play? Do some programs see that just shuffling
their king around will hold? The black king then has no way to enter the
action.


>and could not win with black the following position in game 77
>played Qxa4 and lost
>4q2k/2Q3p1/7p/p7/P6P/1n6/6PK/8 b - - 0 1

Black went on to lose this one? Now that is strange.
I'll have to download this since now I'm curious why black lost.
Again I'll wager a guess that black could not escape perpetual then
decided to wrongly give up its kingside pawns.
>
>Uri



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