Author: Mark Young
Date: 19:56:34 06/29/99
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On June 29, 1999 at 21:52:24, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote: > >On June 29, 1999 at 18:26:11, Mark Young wrote: > >>On June 29, 1999 at 13:58:26, eric guttenberg wrote: >> >>>Jim, >>> >>>It is looking more and more like F5.32 is simply stronger than H7.32 at >>>all time levels when each program is operating on a separate computer, or >>>am I missing something? >>>Does anyone have any evidence otherwise? Aside from those engine v engine >>>games, I cannot remember any results showing H7.32 on top of Fritz. >>>Do you consider it possible that the autoplayer may affect performances? >>> >>>I have both H7.32 and F5.32 but I have only one computer and cannot test >>>them as I would like. >>> >>>eric >> >>I have not looked at your games, but if your copy of hiarcs is like mine, the >>opening book is causing most of the losses. I had to setup my book by hand for >>it to play somewhat like the dos version of the Hiarcs 7 book and get a good >>test of the program. Otherwise it would stop playing winning lines in e4 or d4 >>and c4 and start playing b3,g3,f4 etc as its first move, and be lost in most >>cases out of the opening. I don't understad how this Hiarcs book works at all, >>it will throw out winning lines after 1 game, and start moving down the tree of >>first moves. I'm not sure this is a bug, or something I am mistakenly telling it >>to do. I have the book set to optimum and tournament, so I don't understad first >>moves like b3 etc. when Hiarcs 7 dos would never play this in tournament book. >_________________________________________________________ > >The problem with Hiarcs book is not only on the first move; for example, check >out the following: > >Hiarcs: White: 1. e4...e5 2.Bc4...Nf6 3.Nf3...Nxe4 4.Nc3...Nxc3 5.dxc3...f6 >6.Nh4...g6 7.f4...c6 8.f5...d5...9.f6... Look at this position and clearly >Black is better. Now, an even greater example where Hiarcs really plays an awful >opening in the Sicilian: > >Hiarcs: Black: 1. e4...c5 2.Nf3...e6 3.d4...cxd4 4.Nxd4...Nf6 5.Nc3...Nc6 >6.e5...Nd5 7.Ne4...f5 8.Nd6+...Bxd6.... And what do you think of both >positions at this point? Is this tournament level? Is it by any means >Grandmaster chess? Ha ha!! > >Regards, >Mel >___________________________________________________________ I know, the whole book is screwed up.
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