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Subject: Re: Intensive tests for Hiarcs 7.32!!

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 12:50:51 06/14/99

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On June 14, 1999 at 15:33:28, pete wrote:

>On June 14, 1999 at 02:28:52, blass uri wrote:
>
>>
>>On June 13, 1999 at 19:46:08, pete wrote:
>>
>>>nope ; you exactly found out the main problem , I have discovered the same .
>>>
>>>hiarcs 7.32 is probably the best commercial prog I know to beat fritz 5.32 ;
>>>period.
>>>
>>>But in fact that doesn't say much about the overall strength of the prog.
>>>
>>>I did similar tests ; as usual hiarcs has major problems with junior and it
>>>seems there are problems against crafty 16.6 too.
>>>>
>>If you are right then Hiarcs7.32 is worse than Hiarcs7.
>>
>>>And if you start a big tourney with all of them the winner will be Fritz 5.32
>>>again; the percentage master ;)
>>
>>I know that in a big tournament of Enrique Hiarcs7 was the winner and not
>>Fritz5.32
>
>>Uri
>
>Hi Uri,
>
>I hope you will read this although it is way down due to the exciting Paderborn
>results as I appreciate your posts very much.
>
>As usual I wrote a short message and not a novel but I was serious.
>
>As for your refferance to Enrique's Tourney: Also there Junior defeated Hiarcs;
>if I remember it right it was something like 6-4.
>
>I _love_ Hiarcs 7.32 and H701 ; for me it is the greatest prog around.
>
>But as stenghth of major progs is very close every prog has its favourites and
>it's "bad " opponents.
>
>When I was talking about "letting them all in " I was referring to the fritz
>tournaments where fritz always wins ( at least at my place ) because of its
>outstanding performance against the weaker engines.
>
>And Hiarcs _does_ have problems with Junior in every published match I have seen
>depite the SSCF results.
>
>By the way : the real _bad_ opponent for Hiarcs is Shredder , a prog Fritz will
>spank almost always. See a funny example from this afternoon.
>
>White: Hiarcs 7.32 PII 300 128 MB RAM
>Black: Shredder 3.0 P 233 MMX 32 MB RAM
>
>90min/game
>
>1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d4 cd 5. Nxd4 e6 6. Bf4 d5 7. a3 Bc5 8. Nxc6
>bc 9. e3 0-0 10. Bd3 d4 11. Ne4 Nxe4 12. Bxe4 de 13. fe Qh4+ 14. g3 Qe7 15. Qh5
>f5 16. Bf3 a5 17. 0-0-0 Bb7 18. Bg5 Qc7 19. Rd3 e5 20. e4 Qb6 21. ef Bd4 22. Rd2
>Rab8 23. Be7 Be3 24. Rhd1 Bc8 25. b4 ab 26. Bxb4 Bxf5 27. g4 Bg6 0-1
>
>Convincing, isn't it ? :)
>
>Pete

Yes, Shredder really put down the big smack in this game!

Dave



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