But wasn it strange that you chose to test Hiarcs 2 at the lower speed, as it sensationally won the world championships in Munich -93. And by the way, why did you never test Hiarcs 2.1?
Towards the end of 1993, several new programs were released at about the same time. These were Genius 2, MChess Pro 3.5, Chessmaster 4000, Hiarcs 2 and Socrates. As half of our testers at that time had 486/33 MHz computers, we had to decide which programs to test on the faster 66 MHz computers and which on the slower 33 MHz computers. Our guiding principle was that the strongest programs should be tested at the higher speed. Hiarcs 2 and Socrates were the two programs to be tested at 33 MHz, and the results showed that we made the right choice. Neither of these programs turned out to be better than the other three programs in question. In early 1995, Hiarcs 2.0 had 2208 after 229 games. At 50-66 MHz, the program would have achieved 2250 at the most. When we received diskettes with Hiarcs 2.1 from Mark Uniacke, we had already completed 150 of the 229 games with the 2.0 version. We definitely had no possibility to free resources to start all over again with the new version, which accordi
