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Subject: Re: Shredder vs Hiarcs

Author: blass uri

Date: 15:31:12 06/19/99

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On June 19, 1999 at 18:22:40, Anatoli wrote:

>Hi !
>It will be very interesting if somebody runs a 10-20 game match between the
>World Champion Shredder and Hiarcs 7.32 on two fast mashines.

The problem is that almost nobody had Shredder4.
Shredder4 and not shredder3 played in WCCC
I also read that the version that played in WCCC was faster than Hiarcs7.32

I do not understand the reason that many people assume that the version that
compete in WCCC are commercial programs.

It is clearly not a competition of commercial programs
It is a competition of better programs.

 I am still very
>surprised by Hiarcs poor performance. There was a big mess about it and its
>2600+ rating. Now everybody is after Ferret and Shredder and Hiarcs 7.32 is not
>a star anymore ?!

I think that one of the reasons for the 2 games that Hiarcs lost was poor choice
of the opening.

Uri



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