Author: Pete Galati
Date: 10:47:38 12/29/99
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On December 29, 1999 at 11:03:14, Fernando Villegas wrote: >People of the maths and comp. departments of an important university in my >country are developing a chess program that they want to be based entirely in a >kind of human algorithm, more or less in the path suggested with lot of words >and few facts -so far as it is known- by Botvinnik. And this people, knowing my >old relation with this field and being pal of one of those guys from times in >the college, asked me to be the source of his human-recognition-pattern for >playing chess. >The result of his endeavor has been named, as a token of modesty, Moron 1,0. The >features of this new, revolutionary program based in my knowledge and >recognition pattern are the following: >Opening: >a) The program knows by name something like two dozen famous openings and know >the first 5 or 6 moves for each side of around half a dozen. And it does not >understand a shit of any. >b) He always gets to be pathetically cramped or almost lost at the end of this >phase of the game >c) Every novelty he find in the opening is a instructive example of mistakes >known since 1845. > >Middle game: >a) Moron 1,0 has a perfect understanding of forks as much he fall in almost >every one available for the oposition. >b) He knows the value of preserving bishops and scarcely move his queen bishop >until the end of the game. >c) He performs deep calculations always refuted by an alternative move in ply >two that he missed completely. >d) He knows he must not put his Queen in unnecessary danger and to do so is all >the time in safety hiding behind an isolated pawn. >e) Very enterprising with his knights, although sometimes the goes “one square >too far” and are lost to a simple pawn. Then he comments: “positional >sacrifice” > >Endings: >a) Moron knows everything about pawn races, so yours go very fast from the board >to the box. >b) King oposition: What? >C) square rule: I beg you pardon? >d) sharp activation of he King: from being static all the time, if he ever gets >there he put his hands up and surrender. > >Anybody interested in downloading it? Yes, I'm sure that Gambitsoft would offer it for download if you're looking for someone to put it up, that would get it allot of exposure. If someone like me offered it for download it would not get seen by as many people. Bert over at Gambitsoft is a nice guy. Pete
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