Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 16:17:17 12/29/99
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Fernando, which is the more 'polished' program; Moron 1.0, or Idiot 1.0. And I also thought I heard a rumor about another program 'out there' - It was called, 'Half A Brain' LOL, Happy Newmanium! Larry T. 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?
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