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Subject: Re: what is the best rating that humans can get by playing like a machine?

Author: blass uri

Date: 05:33:50 04/27/99

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On April 27, 1999 at 07:25:39, James T. Walker wrote:

>On April 26, 1999 at 12:10:58, blass uri wrote:
>
>>I noticed that I can beat the weak personalities of chessmaster
>>in 2 hour/40 moves by playing like a machine.
>>
>>The following rules are enough:
>>
>>1)do a list of all the legal moves
>>
>>2)play checkmate in 1 if you can otherwise goto step 4
>>
>>3)look at all the possible captures and give them evaluations (substract the
>>value of the biggest piece that the opponent can take from the value of the
>>piece that you take and this is the evaluation)
>>
>>4)If there is a capture with at least 0 score then play the capture with the
>>biggest value(if there are 2 captures with the same value to the capture that
>>come first in the table of possible moves(you do this table before the game)).
>>
>>5)if there is no capture with positive score then look for checks(moves that
>>threat the opponent king) when the opponent cannot reply the check  by a capture
>>and play the first move in your table.
>>
>>6)if you did not do a move in step 5 play  the first move in the table that does
>>not allow your opponent to do a good capture (a capture when you cannot take
>>back a piece of at least equal value) and does not repeat the position twice if
>>you have material advantage.
>>
>>7)if every move give the opponent the possibility to play a good capture then
>>play the first move in your table.
>>
>>
>>These are not the best rules that a humans can use in 40/2 hours.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Hello Uri,
>In step 2 you look for mate and if not found you go to 4.  When do you use step
>3?
>Jim Walker

It is my mistake
It should be go to step 3.

Uri



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