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Subject: Re: 2265 Uscf Master Trashes Hiarcs 6.0!!! ???

Author: blass uri

Date: 08:33:30 06/25/99

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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.

I think that the losing move was 57.Ke4 and 57.Kc4 with 58.Bd1 could save the
game.
 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.

It is not a dissapointment for me because I know that programs may do stupid
mistakes.

If you watch computer-computer games  then you can often find stupid mistakes of
computers that you would not do.

Uri



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