Author: Thom Perry
Date: 04:18:50 02/25/99
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On February 24, 1999 at 23:23:18, odell hall wrote: > >On February 24, 1999 at 20:29:31, Thom Perry wrote: > >>I have both programs and consider it a moral victory if I can get to move >>20 in either without a completely crushed position. Other days, it's a >>moral victory just to reach move 20. Before I started buying the MCP >>programs, I thought I knew how to play chess. > > > > Hahahahahahaha very funny post!! Still you didn't answer my question. Which >one do you think is stronger? Personally I am disappointed in mchess I have >beaten it three times and just drew mchess 8 yesterday effortlessly, my uscf >rating is 1804 although i think I am really about 1950. What's your rating if >you don't mind saying? I think that mchess has a very interesting style but a >little to speculative which probally explains it's lousy results on ssdf. As you can tell from the above, I am not in a very good position to postulate about the relative strengths of the two programs. After all, would you notice much difference after getting run over by an 18-wheeler or a doubledecker bus? With regard to your other question, although I have been a member of the USCF since 1983, I am UR except I do have one small victory to my credit. Back in the mid-1960's, while attending WVU in Morgantown, West Virginia, I tied for first place in what I believe was their first ever university-sponsored chess championship. First place was a trophy (small) and the right to represent WVU in some weekend intercollegiate chess event with expenses paid. The tournament was held in the old Mountainlair building which was then the center of student activites. Apparently, the tournament was a last minute decision by someone because, as we played the final championship game past midnight, the winner was scheduled to leave for the intercollegiate event that very same morning! The tournament director sat at our table, moaning and groaning at the prospect of us having to play another game because we were hopelessly deadlocked. I really didn't want to go on that trip because I had just started dating a hot chickie from one of my classes and was afraid to leave her alone for the weekend. But my ego want that trophy, small that it was, and the right to say "first place". Finally, I proposed to my opponent that we call the game a draw, that I keep the trophy while he makes the trip. As I recall, he practically leaped over the table into my lap as he enthusiatically accepted the offer. And boy was that tournament director happy. That trophy is around the house somewhere, probably in a box up in the attic. And on one of my bookshelves, in one of my old chess notebooks, are the games from that tournament.
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