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

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 12:29:02 07/24/99

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On July 24, 1999 at 14:00:11, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:

>
>On July 24, 1999 at 12:40:32, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>On July 24, 1999 at 06:36:46, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On July 24, 1999 at 06:21:39, blass uri 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
>>>>
>>>>I gave my hiarcs7.32 64 Mb hash tables and some hours on my pentium200 and at
>>>>depth 11/30 it wants to play
>>>>Rb1 instead of a4.
>>>>
>>>>I did not look at the screen so I do not know when Hiarcs changed its mind
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>Now it wants to play Rf1 at the same depth with evaluation 0.31 after more than
>>>3 hours
>>
>>The game was played at 40/2. The question is not if hiarcs 7.32 will play Rf1,
>>the question is, is a4 played by Hiarcs 7.32 at 40/2 a blunder? This was the
>>claim.
>_______________
>
>Now, Mark, you insisted Hiarcs only chose a4, so how come we now have Mr. Blass
>reporting that after 3 hours it wants to play Rf1?
>
>Mark, when I posted the examples for you, I used the words "bad move". Now, I
>gave you the reason why I said that because Hiarcs changed from a4 to Rf1. Very
>simple. Also, in this same game at move 20 Hiarcs played and it stayed Qd2 - Do
>you think that was a good move?
>
>>>
>>>Uri
--------
Mel,
  You couldn`t have possibly been playing the time control(40/2hrs)and come up
with the move Rf1. It doesn`t sound like you are really playing a fair game with
Hiarcs or like i said, it might be possible that somehow you have a corrupted
file somewhere!!!
----
Terry



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