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Subject: Re: To Melvin Schwartz, Part 4 - Possibly your Hiarcs has a Corrupted File!!

Author: Mark Young

Date: 11:40:06 07/24/99

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On July 24, 1999 at 14:28:40, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:

>
>On July 24, 1999 at 14:01:40, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>On July 24, 1999 at 13:50:20, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On July 24, 1999 at 04:43:06, Terry Ripple wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi Mel,
>>>>  I did exactly as you instructed and ran it from that Position on 40/2hr. and
>>>>when Hiarcs7.32 made the move a4 (0.59/9), i then left Hiarcs continue to think
>>>>on my time as if i was playing Hiarcs in a tournament setting and at no time did
>>>>Hiarcs ever think it was in the "negative" and in fact Hiarcs kept a small
>>>>plus(.46/10) for up to a "full 10 min." of its thinking on my time! I then
>>>>repeated the same position before the move a4 and Hiarcs "STILL" wants to make
>>>>the very "Same Move"- "a4". The position learning was working because before it
>>>>showed in its analysis 2.a4, Nd7 3.a5, etc. but after i left it think on my time
>>>>and tried the position once again it then was showing 2.a4, Nd7 3.Nf5,etc.
>>>>  This leads me to believe that if Mark and i are getting the same conclusions
>>>>from our Hiarcs Program, that it dont take a "Rocket Scientist" to draw a
>>>>conclusion that there must be something thats conflicting in your Hiarcs set-up!
>>>>
>>>>Regards, Terry
>>>
>>>Something wrong with my set up? Interesting. Now, what could possibly be wrong?
>>>You tell me. I was playing the game and after a4 the score went down and so I
>>>let Hiarcs repeat the move twice and twice it played Rf1 with a plus score.
>>>That's it. Period. Now, the other move by Hiarcs in this game, which Hiarcs
>>>played and stayed, was 20.Qd2. Do you or your friend who is PA State Champion
>>>think that was a good move?
>>
>>Stop jumping ship, You are the one making claims about Hiarcs 7.32. Before we
>>now jump to 3rd position you need to retract your claims on the first two
>>position, or show us lines why the Hiarcs 7.32 moves were a blunder. I have not
>>even looked at the 3rd position yet, as I am Taking the Time to analyse the
>>positions. I know Hiarcs 7.32 plays blunders, the interesting question is, how
>>many positions of yours much we look at before your claim becomes true.
>________________________
>
>I described a4 as a bad move. I also stated why I believed a4 was a bad move.
>The game continued with Rf1 and so I cannot tell you why it's a bad move other
>than Hiarcs chose not to repeat it. If that isn't enough - end of conversation.
>For the record, I'll repeat here what I told you in my original post entitled
>"To Mark Young". I said I hope I'm not misunderstood here for I do not say
>Hiarcs is a bad program. Hiarcs is a good program, but not a great program.
>Those may not be the exact words but they say the same thing as in my post. You
>can look back and see for yourself what the exact words were.
>
>In the other game where you claim Black has winning chances, I can only say you
>need not analyze my games anymore. :)

So you found the winning line for white, well then, please show it.

>
>Mel



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