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Subject: Re: Shredder vs Hiarcs

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 07:00:07 06/20/99

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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. 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 personally thing that a 7 round robin tournament is
>absolutely unsuitable for challenging the World best program. Programs must play
>with each other using White and Black colous and the tournament should be
>longer.
>Thanks

Hiarcs did not play a poor tournament! I think it was the only program playing
all the top 4 or 5 programs. With a little luck it could easily have won the
tournament!

...and Hiarcs plays in my view a more human like chess than most other programs!

Torstein




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