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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