Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 18:31:52 03/28/00
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Hi: Good metaphor. And something of the sort could be applied to understand loses of human decently good human players against commercial programs. I mean something like this: game 1: The human side understood very well what the position neeeded and consequently conceived a deep manouver with his pieces to get the upper hand, but in move 21 he did not see a mate in three performed by that far, lonely and despicable bishop in the corner. game 2: the human player parried all tactical threats and became convinced he was dominating the game, but then, unluckily, there was that last stupid threat he did not consider and he lost a pawn and the game after 56 moves game 3: the program was soooo stupid that he changed his good bishop by our bad one, so we lost verve because we felt winners from then on and so after three mediocre moves we were lost and we resign. game 4: this time the human side said, "I am not going to despise this monster" and so he played very carefully, but then he became so cramped due to his style of playing safe that he got a position in which to die would be a consolation. Lose after 34 moves. game 5: endings are our speciality, we say, because they does not understand a shit, so we gladly change pieces and we go towards a position where the program calculate 25 plys and so outsearch us at each move. Sad lose at move 63. game 6: after previous 5 loses we have lost confidence, we think not deep enough and we lose a pawn at move 14. So we unplug the bloody thing. game 7: Finally we got a winning position, but it was dinner time, our wife call us to the table, we go, we take a couple of drinks, we chat about our genial chessic powers, we say we are mauling the program, then there is a telephone call and then when we return to the board the steel bastard get on us at move 34. game 8: Tired, angry, discomfited and frustrated, we play 5 or 6 moves mechanically and we unplug definitively the PC until the next day, but we convice ourselves that this ghoing to be a clear draw and we in fact we declare it a draw. End of the tournament... Fernando
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