Author: James Robertson
Date: 08:31:37 06/25/99
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On June 25, 1999 at 11:29:13, odell hall wrote:
>
>On June 25, 1999 at 09:17:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On June 25, 1999 at 03:18:48, odell hall wrote:
>>
>>>Hi CCC
>>>
>>>
>>> I have Started a six game match at game/60 between a friend of mine who is
>>>rated uscf 2265 and hiarcs 6. My machine is a cyrix 233 with 16mb ram. My
>>>purpose for having the match is I wanted to see how my program would fair
>>>against a mid level master. I have to admitt I am pretty astonished at the
>>>result of game one. I assumed that hiarcs would slaughter a master rated only
>>>2265. Unfortunatley the master one rather easily. He made some mistakes that
>>>allowed hiarcs to come back at a later stage of the game. It then reached a draw
>>>bishops of opposite color endgame which is miserably mishandled to lose the
>>>game. 56. Bxg4??? was the losing move for hiarcs. It also played quite lousy
>>>in the opening it made time wasting queen moves at 17. Qg3? 20.Qf3?? when Rc1
>>>was called for. This game was a real disappointed , I had been bragging to my
>>>friend about how well hiarcs plays positionally and how great it's endgame is.
>>>Here is the game.
>>>
>>
>>This is the point I have tried to explain to you several times. What "GM"
>>would lose such a game to a 2200 player? Can you think of one? I see _all_
>>programs lose to such players on ICC. Some repeatedly to humans that are
>>not even 'titled' by FIDE. And so long as this continues, I have a _hard_
>>time thinking of the programs as "GM" players...
>>
>>IMHO of course...
>>
>>
>>
>
> I have to admitt bob, I thought about your words after hiarcs6 loss, my
>friend commented after the game that he was astonished how weak hiarcs played.
>But like you have said a computer can perform like a 1800 one day and a 2500 the
>next. There are still five games left, I doubt the master will win again with
>such ease.
I think he will surprise himself if he feels that Hiarcs is weak, instead of
that it played weakly in this game.
James
>>>[Event "Game/60 game1"]
>>>[Site
>>>[Date "1997.12.17"]
>>>[Round "1
>>>[White "Hiarcs6 Cyrix233 16m"]
>>>[Black "Richard uscf master"]
>>>[Result "0-1"]
>>>[WhiteElo "2520"]
>>>[BlackElo "2265"]
>>>[ECO "C02"]
>>>
>>>1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. a3 Bd7 7. b4 cxd4 8.
>>>cxd4 Rc8 9. Be2 a5 10. b5 Nxd4 11. Nxd4 Rxc1 12. Qxc1 Qxd4 13. Nd2 Qxe5
>>>14. Nf3 Qb8 15. Qc3 b6 16. Ne5 Nf6 17. Qg3 g6 18. Qc3 Bg7 19. Nxd7 Kxd7
>>>20. Qf3 Ke7 21. Rc1 Ne4 22. Qe3 Rc8 23. Rxc8 Qxc8 24. O-O Qc5 25. Qxc5+
>>>Nxc5 26. Rb1 Bd4 27. Bf3 Kd6 28. Kf1 f5 29. h4 e5 30. Rd1 Na4 31. Rc1 Bc5
>>>32. Bd1 Nb2 33. a4 Nd3 34. Rc2 e4 35. h5 g5 36. h6 Ne5 37. Rd2 f4 38. Bc2
>>>Ke6 39. Bb3 Nd3 40. f3 Ke5 41. fxe4 dxe4 42. Bg8 Bf8 43. Bxh7 Bxh6 44.
>>>Rxd3 exd3 45. Bxd3 Kd4 46. Bc2 Ke3 47. Bd1 Bf8 48. Ke1 Bb4+ 49. Kf1 Kd2
>>>50. Bf3 Bc5 51. Bg4 Be3 52. Be2 Kc3 53. Bd1 Kb4 54. Ke2 g4 55. Kd3 Bc5
>>>56. Bxg4 Kxa4 57. Ke4 Kxb5 58. Kxf4 a4 59. Be6 Kb4 60. g4 Kc3 61. g5 a3
>>>62. Ke4 b5 63. g6 Bf8 64. Kf5 b4 { White resigns } 0-1
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