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

Author: Melvin S. Schwartz

Date: 19:34:57 07/24/99

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On July 24, 1999 at 15:29:02, Terry Ripple wrote:

>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!!!
_____________

You are telling me I couldn't have been playing the game at 40/2. That is
ridiculous! Totally absurd! Are you saying I am not aware of the time control I
used? :)))
_________________

>----
>Terry



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