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Subject: Re: Calling Steve Lopez, Terry Cummings, & Other Hiarcs Owners

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 20:18:13 07/02/99

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On July 02, 1999 at 19:38:58, Sarah Bird wrote:

>On July 02, 1999 at 18:37:35, Steve Lopez wrote:
>
>>On July 02, 1999 at 18:23:41, Steve Lopez wrote:
>>
>>>On July 02, 1999 at 18:03:08, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:
>>>
>>>>This is the Sicilian that Hiarcs 7.32 plays on my program. I re-installed the
>>>>program and it still plays this line that both of you say is not possible. I
>>>>suggest you open the tree, make the board small so you see the info, and check
>>>>it out!
>>>>
>>>>White: Schwartz
>>>>
>>>>Black: Hiarcs 7.32
>>>>
>>>>1.e4...c5  2.Nf3...e6  3.d4...cxd4  4.Nxd4...Nf6  5.Nc3...Nc6  6.Nxc6...bxc6
>>>>7.e5...Nd5  8.Ne4...f5 (here Hiarcs first choice is Qc7 which it should play;
>>>>however, f5 is listed as the other choice here. IMHO f5 should not be played at
>>>>all). 9.Nd6+
>>>>...Bxd6 (and here the info screen says Bxd6 no highlighted in red)
>>>
>>
>>My apologies to all. If you *manually* make the move 9.Nxd6+ (a non-book move),
>>it *transposes* into another book line. Following that line of play out to the
>>end of book (14...0-0), we get to a position that's come up twice in my master
>>database: Byrne-Day, Buenos Aires ol, 1978 (1-0) and Sandor-Szelenyi,
>>Balatonalm, 1996 (0-1).
>>
>>I'll leave it to stronger players than myself to debate the relative merits of
>>this position, but various chess engines I've examined this with give the
>>position as equal or as a slight edge to White.
>>
>>Crow -- ummmm-ummmmm! Good eatin'!
>>
>>-- Steve Lopez
>
>I believe the point of the thread from the start is hiarcs poor opening book.
>Two positions were posted both with errors once figured out seems to me that
>both of the positions are playable. In this case the Sicilian after 10 exd6
>seems to be reasonably playable to me.
>Sarah.
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I played out the line as i posted above and i don`t see a problem and so i
second the motion Sarah
-----
Terry



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