Author: Antonio Dieguez
Date: 09:38:52 10/06/99
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On October 06, 1999 at 11:56:47, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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.. you forgotten to say GOOD LUCK! michael! go ahead with your program! >Fernando pd: I am thinking now may be the speed of LG is because its eval is an inline function.Just kidding...
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