Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 13:49:42 12/08/99
Such as SSCF scores are not equal to Elo ratings, maybe clasification of chess player when they play against computer requires somewhat different categories. The following could be considered an sketchy first proposal open to any kind of improvements and changes. Is this: Patzer player (againts chess computers): Are those that play one in a month with a Chessmaster 2100 or a Psion they found in the hard disk of his office computer. When they were in the school they played maybe half a dozen games, won 2 or 3 and ever have thought hat, if only they had wished, they would be the next Kasparov. The patzer not even try to think much ahead and is killed in less than 12 moves. When that happens he say "For God sake, nobody can win these machines...!" Experienced Player (against etc...) The experienced player has three or four chess programs, the last one purchased five years ago in Macy's. He play once a week and with great intensity, thinking hard at each move, but he always picks at most a mediocre move, never the very best. He thinks he master positional playing because he know by heart that he must not move the queen in the openning. Usually he is killed in the king side when he is trying to calculate a "positional" move in the queen side. If he ever pick the best move he does not know he did. Anyway he is destroyed between 15 and 20 moves. By then he has lost at least a couple of pawns and his position is laughable. Exper Player (against....) This guy really knows. He own three dozens programs, expend half his surplus money purchasing more programs, expend 3/4 his free time reading about chess programs, knows more or less what extensions means, from time to time he believes he has discovered a new, genial idea to program a chess computer and run to CCC to post it. He has enough tactic skill to avoid almost every threat, except one or two he refutes with his favourite move, take-back. With his strenght and the help of the couple of take-backs he aloud to himself - and then forget he ever alouded that to himself- he more or less manages to avoid inmediate defeat ,but anyway around move 25 is positionally crushed and very soon lose his heart and a pawn and so he usually resign with a very professional attitude around move 30.. FM or IM: This category of players never plays "serious" games against computers, except if there is money, but only if the money is available also for the loser. By the way, he is a good loser: he lose one blitz after another in ICC and one tournament game after another in the secret of his home, but of course nobody knows. If asked, he say computer knows nothing of the real chess thing. They are just iron toys. Shit. Nothing. GM: These guys keep programs at bay by one of the most effective tactics ever created: not playing againts computers. From time to time they do for money and usually get the full point or half a point, but also they knows more and more the bitter taste of defeat. Any case they prefer play computers under disguise in ICC, where nobody kows who is he poor guy losing 15 games in a row to Crafty.
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