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Subject: Re: Which Comercial Program Best Plays Like a HUMAN Master?

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 05:21:49 01/19/00

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On January 19, 2000 at 05:21:17, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On January 19, 2000 at 03:00:01, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>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
>
>I personally like Mchess since version 7 best (I like version 8 a bit more)
>concerning playing style. The second program I like is CSTAL but it is
>playing a kind of poker chess with you too often not accurate and that's
>why I put Mchess8 on top of my personal list regarding playing style.
>
>Ed

And Rebel comes where on this list?   :-)

-g



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