Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 07:34:03 07/01/99
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On June 30, 1999 at 19:09:17, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote: > >On June 30, 1999 at 16:08:11, Terry Ripple wrote: > >>On June 30, 1999 at 13:32:18, Chuck wrote: >> >>>On June 30, 1999 at 12:33:37, Sune Larsson wrote: >>> >>>>On June 30, 1999 at 12:23:41, eric guttenberg wrote: >>>> >>>>>A couple of recent posts have suggested that H7.32's opening book contains >>>>>a high number of seriously defective lines which may have contributed to >>>>>its negative score versus F5.32 in Jim Walker's autoplay games reported here >>>>>recently. >>>>>Is there in fact a significant quality gap between the opening lines played >>>>>out of F5.32 and H7.32 in their original opening books? >>>>>I am just trying to make some sense out or the highly coflicting results >>>>>between these two programs. It is almost enough to make me go out and buy >>>>>a second computer system to run some tests myself, but then my wife would >>>>>probably be facing homocide charges... >>>>> >>>>>eric >>>> >>>>Oh, these problems can be solved by therapy or something! At least we know >>>>that Hiarcs MUST play with "tournamentbook" on! >>>> >>> >>>>Greetings! >>>>Sune >>> >>>IMO Fritz has the best opening book of all the programs (with the possible >>>exception of Junior and Nimzo, which I don't have). I have NEVER seen Fritz >>>come out of book in a bad position. Fritz probably scores alot of points in >>>the SSDF, especially against older programs, before it even begins calculating. >> >>----------- >>Hi Hiarcs7.32 Owners! >> My post from last night in regards to 2 games and one was a Sicilian was about >>this very thing. My Hiarcs7.32 never gone into these bogus lines and actually >>showed a decent plus in the one opening and the other, equality! >> I think who ever is getting messed up opening lines from Hiarcs should try and >>Re-set the Opening tree! There were other opening lines in __________________________________________________________ > >Hello Terry, > >What do you mean reset the tree? You copy the opening book tree onto the hard >drive and that should be all you need to do. I have seen Hiarcs 7.32 play bad >openings because it is part of the book moves and at tournament level. I agree >with the post above about Fritz F5 Book CTG being better than Hiarcs. I think >the opening book in Hiarcs allows too much variety. I have examples of only >about 8 moves and Hiarcs position is severely weakened - a BIG passed pawn in >the center! The problem, I believe, is there are too many variations allowed. I >think the Fritz book is more limited and plays openings better suited for >Fritz's playing style. >I do not consider the opening book in Hiarcs to be of tournament level - just my >opinion. > >Regards, >Mel ------------- Hi Mel, The Variety is greatly minimized in Tournament Book mode and dont forget that it has a learning feature in its book as you continue playing with it the opening choices in its book diminish as i found out that it would no longer play b3 and b4 as an example! ------ Terry >__________________________________________________________ > >openings that were >>complained about and when i ran it through my Hiarcs7.32 it was fine. >> Best regards, >> Terry Ripple
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