Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 01:15:38 07/05/99
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On July 04, 1999 at 14:24:50, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote: > >On July 03, 1999 at 05:14:14, Terry Ripple wrote: > >>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. >>>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 >> >>-------------- >>Hi Jim and Mel, >> It`s pretty hard to beat Hiarcs even if it`s up .50 in the position which i >>don`t see such a big advantage for our level of play anyway! >> He just needs to play the engine vrs. engine matches several good games and >>that also will eliminate the weaker lines of play and weaker openings etc. > >Hello Terry, > >The point of exposing bad lines is in the hope the programmer will be notified >and the next version will be improved. At least that is my main purpose for >posting the Sicilian. That f5 move is in the book but weighted at 18% when >compared to Qc7 at 80%. Therefore, Qc7 was the best move and should have been >played, and would have been played if f5 was not in the book. Remember, this is >tournament book we are talking about. And yes, f5 is playable but it is not the >best move! 80% - 18% says an awful lot don't you think? ------------ Hi Mel, I definitly agree on this point! Maybe the idea of the programmer was to give us a little variety in the opening and he knew that as soon as we lost to Hiarcs in that weaker line (about 90%+), then we would no longer have to play this line due to the wonderful "learning feature" of the program! Plus, the nice feature can be turned off or tree re-set and we can even go in tree and change this percentage of a weaker line if we want to still play the line but play it less frequently! --------- Terry > >Mel > >> >>Regards, >>Terry
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