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Subject: Re: Question Hiarcs ?

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 01:43:58 06/09/05

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On June 08, 2005 at 00:04:49, Andrew Walker wrote:

>On June 07, 2005 at 19:40:29, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>On June 07, 2005 at 09:27:01, Madhavan wrote:
>>
>>>On June 07, 2005 at 09:07:30, stuart taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 07, 2005 at 08:25:10, Madhavan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 07, 2005 at 08:13:51, Richard Borneman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Does anyone happen to know when the new hiarcs chess program will be coming out
>>>>>>! They have hiarcs 9.6 for mac computers but not for window computers ! The
>>>>>>reason i want to know is bc i am currently using hiarcs 9 at playchess.com in
>>>>>>the engine room ! My current elo is an amazing 2651 elo with a 2.8 ghz celron pc
>>>>>>512 ram ! i am playing 10+10 min games - 60+15 min games witn auto accept on ! i
>>>>>>average 505 kn/s . Its not fast but very amazing ! Its been almost nearly 2 1/2
>>>>>>years since hiarcs 9 was released . when is the new hiarcs program coming ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>no rumour?noone has crossed rumour about Hiarcs,maybe Jorge knows.
>>>>>
>>>>>there was a rumour about Fritz 9's release on october.
>>>>
>>>>Chess programmers are getting quite depressed recently!
>>>
>>>why?how do you know?they are getting depressed about programs play?
>>>
>>>>S.Taylor
>>
>>Top programmers used to post alot on CCC, and they even spoke about their
>>upcoming plans for new releases. But now, hardly any of them are writing
>>anything anymore (Certainly not the top comercial programmers). Even not
>>Christophe Theron. He seems like he must be TERRIBLY depressed. No word, and no
>>program updates! His last few months he was always seeming angry, also. The
>>Shredder programmer too, even though he made a great program, he nevertheless
>>just can't answer or comment on a few repeated questions, like he's lost his
>>wind. Also, no patches of playing improvements, like there was with 7.04. Hiarcs
>>is also going very very slow ever since 7.32 came out.
>>
>>I'm not asking to be taken seriously, everything I'm saying here. I'm just
>>expressing a bit of frustration in a Picasso/impressionistic way, a bit.
>>
>
>Are any of the Hiarcs testers currently reading this list? I remember a comment
>from Mark that he was hoping to get Hiarcs 10 out by the end of last year, since
>then it seems he has been concentrating on the Mac release. Hopefully this will
>translate into a PC release before long. The Hiarcs site still gets updated a
>few times every month, so he is probably still very busy testing and improving.
>I'd rather see major upgrades every year or more rather than minor more regular
>updates.
>
>Andrew

Yes -- I read here, just not actively posting at the moment.  Hiarcs 10 is
coming along fine.  I do not have a projected release date at this time but it
certainly is not far off.

Regards,

-elc.



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