Author: odell hall
Date: 12:00:14 09/21/99
Hi
Has anyone noticed the often bizarre and irresponsible play of Hiarcs7.32?
It is hard to believe this program is so celebrated here at CCC, the program has
some obvious flaws that I think any Astute Human master could easily exploit.
Last night I played it on my AMD k6-2 350 40mb, at 40\1hr, and nearly won, after
the game I analyzed with fritz5.32, it pointed out atleast five missed wins on
my part. Some may some, "well what are you talking about you lost didn't you"?,
True but the point that I am making is that a player of my level should never of
had hiarcs in such a position (uscf 1804). Analyzing the game with junior,
fritz, and chessmaster they all made superior moves than hiarcs, and avoiding
the trouble. If I were a computer chess operator on icc i would not feel
comfortable playing hiarcs7.32 against titled players in anything over game\30.
Don't get me wrong I am not basing my accessment on just this one game, but
many. I think the biggest problem with hiarcs7 is the queenside Castling bug?
Here is the Game, to illustrate what I am talking about.
Event "Match game4"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Hiarcs7.32"]
[Black "O.hall"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "2595"]
[BlackElo "1805"]
[Annotator "ohall"
[PlyCount "69"]
{39936kB, super.ctg. PentiumII
} 1. d4 {0} 1... Nf6 {15} 2. c4 {0} 2... g6 {7}
3. g3 {0} 3... Bg7 {8} 4. Bg2 {0} 4... O-O {10} 5. Nc3 {0} 5... c6 {9} 6. Qb3 {
0.58/9 68} 6... d6 {77} 7. Nf3 {0.56/9 20} 7... Nbd7 {41} 8. Bg5 {0.49/9 131}
8... h6 {26} 9. Bd2 {0.49/9 80} 9... e5 {60} 10. dxe5 {0.42/9 71} 10... Nxe5 {
73} 11. Nxe5 {0.36/9 59} 11... dxe5 {28} 12. O-O-O {0.34/9 74} 12... Qc7 {40}
13. Na4 {-0.03/9 232} 13... b5 {73} 14. cxb5 {0.51/9 173} 14... Be6 {39} 15.
Qc2 {0.94/8 68} 15... Rac8 {50} 16. bxc6 {1.07/8 73} 16... Nd5 {43} 17. Kb1 {
1.51/9 112} 17... f5 {113} 18. h4 {1.67/8 99} 18... e4 {25} 19. g4 {1.07/9 325}
19... Rb8 {24} 20. gxf5 {1.90/8 249} 20... gxf5 {21} 21. h5 {0.90/8 511} 21...
Nb4 {63} 22. Bxb4 {-0.40/9 370} 22... Rxb4 {4} 23. Kc1 {-0.87/8 196} 23... Rc4
{206} 24. Nc3 {-1.30/9 80} 24... Qxc6 {9} 25. Rdg1 {-1.41/9 94} 25... Kh7 {124}
26. Rh3 {-0.95/8 62} 26... Bd4 {67} 27. Rd1 {-0.74/7 25} 27... Bxf2 {39} 28. e3
{-0.54/8 31} 28... f4 {114} 29. Qxf2 {0.00/9 0} 29... Rxc3+ {177} 30. bxc3 {
-0.04/9 0} 30... Qxc3+ {29} 31. Qc2 {1.59/8 37} 31... Qa1+ {74} 32. Kd2 {
2.14/8 37} 32... Rd8+ {28} 33. Ke1 {2.60/9 10} 33... Rxd1+ {36} 34. Qxd1 {
2.60/9 6} 34... Qxa2 {32} 35. Bxe4+ {6.56/8 37} 1-0
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