Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 22:44:17 05/17/99
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On May 18, 1999 at 00:11:31, Mark Young wrote: >On May 17, 1999 at 22:03:46, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On May 17, 1999 at 21:41:31, Mark Young wrote: >>[snip] >>> >>>Hiarcs7 found the BM moves best, and in a very short time. >>> >>>0 9->29 398s d1-d2 c6xd4 d2xd4 c8-d7 o-o-o f8-e7 f1-b5 o-o +.94 >>> >>>1 10->30 303s c1-e3 c8-f5 g1-f3 e7-e6 f1-e2 f8-b4 +.36 >>> >>>2 9->29 215s d7-d5 d2-d3 e5xf4 e4xd5 c3xd5 d8xd5 c1xf4 +.36 >>Unfortunately, if you give Hiarcs a hint, it will quit as soon as the move looks >>better than the others. It may well have changed its mind later, if it were to >>continue processing. I consider Hiarcs useless if you actually give it the bm >>hint. A serious bug in the way that it processes data. Give it a stupid move >>for bm and see if it still finds the positions in question as best. > >Good, now I hope the reverse is true also, since I gave hiarcs7 no bm. I set up >the position, and ran it in monitor mode, and no it did not change its mind. >This is now the second time Hiarcs7 as solved your positions, and for the second >time you dismiss its results, for no reason but your own. > >Others can confirm that Hiarcs7 can find the BM without knowing the BM. The point is that it does a "find and stop" instead of a "find and keep searching until the time limit expires (whatever that may be)", so you don't know if it would have retained the move or if it was just an aberration. Searching it without providing a best move is adequate, of course. Dave
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