Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:32:53 03/29/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 21:31:52, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>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
:)
Christophe
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