Author: stuart taylor
Date: 02:07:52 09/24/04
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On September 24, 2004 at 04:44:23, jim r uselton wrote: >Hello, I'm a newbie at computer chess and I have a question. How strong are the >programs you buy right off the shelf. The Fritz, the Shredder, etc., etc. > >Will they play at GM strength or do you need a strong player guiding and >controlling move selection? The top programs on normal PC's of today, will often beat a GM, perhaps even more often than not. If even a GM wants to have a fighting chance, he has to be very familiar with computer style chess. This does not mean that a GM doesn't understand better than a computer. Any GM SHOULD beat a computer in almost any game, but that is now very hard to actualize any more, so you might as well say that computers are equal to a strong GM, but in a certain way. I think that if any GM would analyze absolutely determined to win, like in correspondents chess, then he could win (or draw) almost any game off any computer, even if the computer was also left analyzing for that same amount of time. But the GM would have to work very very hard. S.Taylor > Also, what percentage of top CC players use program >assistance in their CC games? > >Thanks
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