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Subject: Re: The program that beats YOU the fastest(the one you think is the best)?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 08:29:22 04/15/00

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On April 15, 2000 at 07:46:24, Mike S. wrote:

>On April 15, 2000 at 02:58:46, Pete Galati wrote:
>>No, I _don't_ find the program that beats
>>me the fastest to be the best program,
>>I find it the most irritating, and the one I'm least likely to use.  It's no
>>good to me if it crushes the life out of me before I get a good game going.
>>That's not a very interesting game at all.
>
>But on the other hand, such a program seems to be able to exploit chances you
>give to it earlier than others. If you hold out longer against other programs,
>you would have to ask yourself, what would the aggressive program have played to
>"crush" you as you say... I find programs like Rebel 10 or CSTal II more
>challenging right fromthe opening on (after leaving the book lines of course)
>than others which play Mr.Sandman chess until I blunder. It a matter of taste.
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl

Running at their normal strength, most Chess programs will win the game against
me, unfortunatly some are too weak to do that.  I don't find over aggressive
programs to be realistic.

Pete



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