Author: James Robertson
Date: 21:54:47 06/25/99
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On June 25, 1999 at 23:34:36, odell hall wrote: >Hi CCC > > > I am simply speechless, can someoneelse who owns hiarcs6 verify the below >moves? I am not using the fritz5 based hiarcs6 but the full program. Today the >master made the win look even easier than the day before. In the tradition of >anti-computer play the master simply gave up a few pawns for an unstoppable king >side attack. It was far to late before hiarcs6 recognized it was completley >lost. What's even more odd is that I have played dozens of games with hiarcs >against other computers and have never seen it lose like this in 19 moves!! >After these two games I think I may have to rethink my position on the Computer >grandmaster stand. The best answer I have is that I am running hiarcs in the >windows enviroment. The problem with this theory is that I ran the game in dos >mode and hiarcs choose the exact same moves!! Inspite of these Loses I am >still convinced hiarcs6 is one of the best programs I am simply at a loss to >explain this result. Here's the game > > > > >Event "Match game\60 game2"] >[Site "chess club"] >[Date "1999.06.25"] >[Round "?"] >[White "Richard uscf2265"] >[Black "Hiarcs6 Cyrix233 16m"] >[Result "1-0"] >[WhiteElo "2265"] >[BlackElo "2520"] >[ECO "B23"] > >1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. f4 Nc6 4. Nf3 g6 5. Bc4 Bg7 6. O-O Nf6 7. d3 O-O >8. Qe1 a6 9. a4 Bd7 10. Qh4 Nb4 11. f5 gxf5 12. Bh6 Nxc2 13. Rac1 Bxh6 >14. Qxh6 Nb4 15. Ng5 e5 16. exf5 d5 17. Bxd5 c4 18. dxc4 Qb6+ 19. Kh1 1-0 I am really surprised. Richard will _surely_ lose the next game from overconfidence? And Hiarcs was lost in 16 moves, maybe 15, possibly even when it took the c2 pawn. It just spent the last few moves thowing away material delaying the inevitable.... James
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