Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 20:03:16 07/18/99
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On July 18, 1999 at 22:47:00, John A. Gonzales wrote: >And I thought it was just me. So far HIARCS 7.32 has been a sad disappointment. >I run it on K6-3 450MHZ system and it consistently loses to CM 5000 (yes 5000!) >running on my Pentium (not Pentium II) 266 laptop. What's strange is that most >of the time HIARCS will get a completely won position out of the opening and >then all of the sudden it makes a horrible blunder and loses quickly. Once it >was about to win an elementary endgame with three connected pawns against 1 pawn >on the same side but incredibly HIARCS allowed a draw by repeating the position >3 times. I no longer use the program because I believe there is clearly >something wrong with it. By the way Fritz5.32 (on the K6-3 system) smokes CM >5000 on my laptop. Thanks Melvin and John for your input. Like you both have said, we all expected Hiarcs 7.32 to be a better program and had such high expectation for this program. The problem is that the chess engine does not live up to its expectation, perhaps it was all the hype. I won't be surprised if Fritz 5.32 still remains number 1 in the SSDF list. I believe that I've seen enough evidence that Hiarcs 7.32 makes blunders which are totally un-explainable. Pity for such a highly expected chess engine. Laurence
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