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Thanks for the news. I am happy that Hiarcs 12 will be available on DVD.

I wonder how noisy it is compared to Robot Adversary.

Dylan: "You can vote in either thread (but preferably, do it on here.) Before making a move in the other thread, I'm going to copy and paste your votes to the other thread to comply with the rules about having to vote on there."

Good move.

Important clarification required: turbojuice1122: "... but they're still restricted by the decisions of the Hiarcs computer, aren't they?" Are they??? When this game was first proposed, it seemed that it was the forum versus Harvey Williamson (British correspondence chess champion) with co...

"We are not being stronger as the Hiarcs team. Our strength it is a medium strength of the voters if the current system of move selection is working. We might have been stronger if someone will coordinate our work and separates the tasks for the particular forum team members. That way we have c...

"Then download it to the one you use for posting and transfer it."

Well, okay, but it's psychologically difficult for a virus-phobic, trojan-phobic, spam-phobic person like me to do that

"It is easier and more convinient when buying a UCI engine just to download it."

Not for me, it isn't. My computer is a stand-alone.

I vote for 2...d6.

Dylan, thanks for doing the Captain's job.

Congratulations! At the risk of saying something naive, I have always felt that Hiarcs is the engine with the most potential for constant improvement because it is knowledge-based, and, well, we never stop learning. (I know that there are more issues involved, but I'm sure it's a factor.) I am now e...

As a spectator who read every message, I am very impressed with the play of the human team. Congratulations on a fine performance.

Steve, thanks for the event!

PeterG: "Starting from a balanced position is fine as long as it isn't a dead position. Opportunities for both sides is a must." Hello, PeterG and Steve B: Starting from a balanced position is a good idea. How are we going to choose the position? Recent GM game or top computer game? Out of...

Mirage video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrDqB3bWztI

Phantom Force video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJADuhQAUQ0

Steve B: "beginning with move 10 i will post the Eval of the position reported by the Res II after it makes its move" I don't think the forum team should know the computer's eval. We could gain some unfair advantage from that. For example, we might consider a complicated tactical line wher...

Ted, the engines are doing you a favor. You would not want to live in a false paradise, thinking that you had played a "Mona Lisa" which was actually subtly flawed. :wink: More importantly, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a beautiful essay called "El Dorado". I think you will like i...

For almost 30 years, I have felt that playing computer chess did nothing to improve my playing ability, but that belief has now changed. In the last two months, I have played almost 200 games against Hiarcs 9 in Friend Mode. This mode is found in what I think is called the Chessbase Fritz GUI. I had...