Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 13:51:38 11/06/98
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On November 06, 1998 at 13:03:17, Peter McKenzie wrote: As I do not know the reasons why Al judged the playing strength of both program in this way, I propose he explains it himself, before we speculate over that. So Korner, please explain to avoid msiunderstanding. Up to now my impression (still based on Mcp7.1) was that while Mchess is the stronger blitzer against humans (with its powerful speculative attacking chess bringing humans to despair, Rebel has been the best program against humans on tournament level since years, playing the more mature positional chess at these time controls. Maybe this changed with Mchess8, but on which results over which time could such a judgement possibly be based? Examples of played Mchess8 tournament games against humans are probably very welcome here. :-) So perhaps any generalizing statement of this kind might be misleading... Regards from Dirk >The following is a direct quote from the M-Chess Pro 8 review by Komputer Korner >(see Computer Chess Reports page): >"The reason to buy M-Chess Pro 8 is to obtain the strongest chess playing >program against humans. Of course Rebel 10 (with it's strength against humans >being almost on a par with M-Chess Pro 8 and with many more features) gets the >nod but again if you want the absolute strongest then M-Chess Pro 8 is for you." > >Does Komputer Korner know something I don't? Or is this a classic case of a >completely arbitrary opinion being presented as if it were a cast in stone fact? > > >Peter
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