Author: stuart taylor
Date: 00:00:01 01/19/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 21:13:25, Heiko Mikala wrote: >Hi Stuart! > > >On January 18, 2000 at 19:44:13, stuart taylor wrote: > >>If all what you say about m-chess pro is true, then how can it not turn >>out to be the the strongest program? > >Because playing interesting, exciting, thrilling and attacking chess is not >enough to be the strongest program of them all... > >If you reread this passage: > >>>For MChess Pro, at least 1 of every 2 games is a real thriller, mostly with >>>furious king attacks, and most of the time these thriller games are convincing >>>wins for MChess, where the opponent didn't have a clue of what was going on, >>>until it's too late. Of course, sometimes these attacks fail, but then you will >>>often see nice wins by the opponents, making the games still very enjoyable. > >you can see, that if "at least 1 out of 2 games is a thriller", and only "most >of these games are wins for MChess", than approx. 1/2 of MChess games are wins >for the opponents ;-) > >So I didn't say that MChess is the strongest of them all - only that in my >opinion it plays the most interesting and most human like chess of them all. > >By the way, MChess is still one of the top programs, concerning playing >strength. > >Greetings, Heiko. If these brilliant wins are also against top computer oponents,then that is a very great thing which I didn't know about. If the results are great except when it is flawed, or didn't get a chance to flare up, then in some ways and in some games it must be the strongest computer player there is. So in that case, they already have the right idea, so why don't they find a way of correcting its faults whilst not detracting from its strong points? Then it should be top shouldn't it? O.K. CSTAL might be too speculative and hardley ever score a victory over the top programs, since it simply isn't perfect enough. Only queer and interesting. But MChess is basically there!-no? S.Taylor
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