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Subject: Re: Chess System Tal II vs Shredder 8

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 08:00:24 02/04/04

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On February 04, 2004 at 10:49:47, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On February 04, 2004 at 10:22:06, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>In short, playing against CSTal gives a feeling which to a certain
>>extent resembles playing against an aggressive and imaginative human,
>>who occasionally makes errors in his calculations.  This is entirely
>>different and much more fun than playing against (say) Fritz.
>
>exactly. CSTal is like playing against a human. You don't know if his sac
>works or if he is blundering.
>you need to find out yourself. by refuting or losing :-)

Yes.  I wonder why this is so difficult to understand for the majority of
computer chess enthusiasts.  I sometimes get the impression that most people
just run comp-comp games between the top engines and calculate statistics
and Elo ratings, and never play against the engines or study their games.

Tord



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