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Subject: Re: Why does Hiarcs 7.32 hold even with the stronger Junior 6a?

Author: Tony Hedlund

Date: 09:38:20 02/08/00

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On February 07, 2000 at 14:01:53, Laurence Chen wrote:

>On February 07, 2000 at 13:34:19, James A. Tackett wrote:
>
>>     There seems to be a strong consensus that Junior 6a is the strongest
>>program on the market.  Yet, we have seen two matches where Hiarcs 7.32 (my
>>favorite program, but I've ordered J6)holds even with it.  Is this a statistical
>>fluk?  Was Hiarcs lucky?
>Nope, Hiarcs 7.32 seems to be the only engine which can give Junior 6 problems.
>In my engine vs engine test shows that at 10 minutes for the whole game, Junior
>6 barely beats Hiarcs 7.32, however at Blitz 5 minutes or less, Hiarcs 7.32
>beats the crap out of Junior 6.  Perhaps the reason why is because both Junior
>and Hiarcs are more positional oriented engines, therefore Junior is not able to
>outplay positionally Hiarcs because they are about equal in that department.
>Laurence

That's my opinion to.

Tony



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