Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 03:21:02 10/08/99
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> Anybody installed the Hiarcs 7.32 patch yet?
I did instal it last night. It seems they broke display for move analysis. Now,
after every new move entered they clear that window in a different color
(lighter color) than its normal background, then redraw everything. It causes
annoying flashing, especially distracting in blitz, where moves come in often.
It usually starts several moves into the game (first few moves don't flash the
window, then at a random time, while still in opening book, it starts). Also
piece movement is now in some slow animation, on 400Mhz/128Mb Celeron laptop, I
can see it repainting the frame around the destination square where piece just
moved. Again, very annoying behaviour, shows sloppy programming and sloppy
testing (I find the latter true for other CB programs, too many glitches which
ought to have been caught by the in-house testers).
As to play, I played right away 3 games, won first (checkmated it in 28 moves;
missed a bit shorter mate, see the game below), drew second, lost third (got
overconfident, I guess), which is somewhat better than usual score against it
(after just over a month of playing against this 7.32 version), but it was only
3 games (at 15-30 sec/move). In any case it surely doesn't feel any stronger. I
may go back to the original version from CD anyway, because of the broken
display code, until they get a new patch for this patch.
[Event "Level=15"av. "]
[Site "Lexington, MA"]
[Date "1999.10.07"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Tomic, Ratko"]
[Black "Hiarcs 7.32"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B86"]
[PlyCount "55"]
[EventDate "1999.09.26"]
{65536kB, HIARCS.ctg. C400}
1. e4 {0} 1... c5 {0} 2. Nf3 {3} 2... d6 {0} 3.d4 {5} 3... cxd4 {0}
4. Nxd4 {4} 4... Nf6 {0} 5. Nc3 {3} 5... a6 {0} 6. Bc4 {6} 6... e6 {0}
7. O-O {8} 7... Be7 {0} 8. Bb3 {6} 8... Qc7 {0} 9. Be3 {8} 9... Nc6 {0}
10. f4 {3} 10... Bd7 {0} 11. Qf3 {5} 11... O-O {0} 12. f5 {6} 12... Nxd4 {0}
13. Bxd4 {4} 13... b5 {0} 14. a3 {8} 14... a5 {0} 15. g4 {8}
15... h6 {0.10/8 39} 16. h4 {3} 16... Qb7 {0.06/7 40} 17. g5 {18}
17... hxg5 {2.66/9 157} 18. hxg5 {7} 18... Nh7 {2.66/9 10} 19. f6 {22}
19... Nxg5 {4.40/8 80} 20. Qg4 {19} 20... Bxf6 {4.40/8 0} 21. Rxf6 {6}
21... a4 {4.40/7 5} 22. Qxg5 {10} 22...Qa7 {17.09/7 58} 23. Bxa7 {36}
23... Be8 {22.52/7 26} 24. Kf2 {11} 24... Rb8 {25.20/6 8} 25. Rg1 {12}
25... g6 {#3/4 0} 26. Qh6 {43} 26... Bd7 {#2/3 0} 27.Rh1 {14}
27... axb3 {#1/1 0} 28. Qh7# {4} 1-0
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