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Subject: "Big" Goliath, Big Hoopla?

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 08:56:47 10/06/99


I wonder if some credit can still be given to the promise that after a while
Little Goliath will be replaced by the big brother, a real, awesome, full size
Goliath.  I wonder if ever Big Goliath existed anyway. Maybe the author is
waiting a natural growing of the actual little thing to become the big one? Some
day Little Goliath will get enough stature as to be considered the big one?
If that is the plan, I have serious doubts it can ever be accomplished. Little
Goliath is strong, but not more strong and by the way not more knowleadgeable,
not more attractive and no more special than any other fast searcher; in fact a
lot less than Junior, that being a fast searcher is also a very very strong
program, with positional acumen. And also is less interesting than Fritz,
another fast searcher with infinite features and awfully play, not just strong.
I do not say this because I have score against LG and I feel proud and arrogant.
I have played just one game -40 moves in one hour- and I lost it, but the point
is I lost it after the usual way you lost against a program, that is to say,
after a mistake duly used against you. There was not a moment  where I felt
tactically pressed against the ropes beause of the program initiative, as
happens with programs like CSTAL, Crafty, Mchess, etc, neither pressed on
positional ground as sometimes happens with Rebel or Junior or Schreder. It was
just a mistake punished according the usual rules.
So, LG is not that impressive as some people believe because some results
against oher computers. It was just one game, but after 20 years playing
programs I can say with only one game what kind of stuff I have in my hands.
Then we return back to the beginning of this post. If this thing, LG, is not the
thing, are we going to see a Big Goliath as som,ething dramatically different
and superior? If so, in which date? When? Michael, if you are there, give us a
hint..
Fernando



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