Author: Roy Brunjes
Date: 19:55:24 02/21/01
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On February 21, 2001 at 18:34:19, Steve Murphy wrote: >I have Fritz 6, I am only an 1100 rated, but sometimes I can beat it at its >1700 level seems to me that some setting isn,t right & also seems to make the >same opening all the time Steve, Your experience is not unique in my opinion, at least on the uneveness (is that a word?) of its playing strength. Fritz (and Junior), in my opinion, do not play very much like 1700 players (to use your example). Sometimes, they see tactics that no 1700 player would likely see and in those cases play much like a STRONGER opponent. In other cases, they play feeble move after feeble move and seem much weaker than 1700. The Chessbase programs seem consistently bad at mimicking weaker players. Perhaps it is a GUI thing as they all share the same GUI (for the most part)? If you want a program that does quite well at handicapping its strength, try Rebel 11 (the Century 3.0 program). Set that to 1700 and, while hardly perfect, it truly seems much more like a 1700 player (consistently throughout the game) than many programs I have tried. I believe (but could be wrong -- I have not tried it) that the free program Rebel Decade also offers this ability. You can download that one free from the Rebel website (www.rebel.nl). Rebel Decade and Rebel Century 3.0 are both DOS programs, but their user interface works well under Windows. Not quite as pretty as the Chessbase products, but extremely functional and easy to use. Rebel Decade 3.0 is easily a 2200 (maybe a bit more?) strength player, so that should give you a challenge for quite a while. On Friday's, it plays like Rebel 10 (i.e. about 200 points stronger) if you let it play full strength. Roy
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