Author: Melvin S. Schwartz
Date: 21:28:59 07/02/99
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On July 02, 1999 at 23:42:15, James T. Walker wrote: >On July 02, 1999 at 22:55:21, Steve Lopez wrote: > >>On July 02, 1999 at 20:45:09, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote: >> >>> >>>Have you got it now? :-)))) >> >>That's the beauty of the Internet, man -- it allows one to make an ass of >>oneself worldwide in a matter of seconds. :-D >> >>-- Steve Lopez > >Hello Steve, >I also have Hiarcs 7.32. I'm very happy with the program including the opening >book. However, if you play the moves Mel suggest, here is the problem: It's >true that exf6 e.p. is in the book. So next you play Nd6+ and Hiarcs starts >thinking since it's out of book and plays Bxd6. After playing Bxd6 though, you >can now click the red backup arrow below the board and guess what shows up in >the book moves window, "9...Bxd6 no" in red! So it appears it's in the book as >a move not to make and following this guidline it does not make this "book move" >but when thinking on it's own it selects this move. Hello Jim Glad to see someone finally found out I was correct about that. I guess Mr. Lopez didn't make the effort to verify what I was talking about since he was so anxious to say I was wrong. We argued about that so much and I got so frustrated I had to visit my psychiatrist three times to get my head screwed back on. :) Oh well, that's life. By the way, that Bxd6 thing seems like a bug in the program. First of all, if Hiarcs didn't play Bxd6, it wouldn't be able to castle and its position would not be very good. The thing is if instead of playing f5 it should have played Qc7 which is in the tree as the favorite move with I believe 80% and f5 something like 18%. So it was a poor choice to play such a move which by the way is in the book. Qc7 instead of f5 would without question be the proper move. Oh, and by the time I get around to eliminating all the bad lines, I think there will be Hiarcs 8.32 and Fritz 6.32 to consider. :-) Regards, Mel >By the way, my Hiarcs did play some 1 b4, 1b3, 1 g3 moves when new, but after >losing most of them it hasn't played any of those opening move in the last 150 >games. So my advice to Mel is to beat it when it plays bad lines and it will >learn it's lesson and stop playing them. :-) >Jim Walker
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