Author: blass uri
Date: 22:53:47 07/18/99
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On July 18, 1999 at 23:03:16, Laurence Chen wrote: >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 I think that something is wrong in your system because my hiarcs7.32 can see mate in 6 against itself in 59 seconds and I understood that your hiarcs cannot see it and even after the blunder needs 2 minutes to see the mate in 6 and your pentium233 is faster then my pentium200. Uri
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