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Subject: Re: Truly deserved computer ratings?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:09:39 06/27/00

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On June 27, 2000 at 10:02:27, Peter Skinner wrote:

>>Nobody has figured out how to do that yet.  If you figure it out, you will be
>>famous.  Well, to a bunch of computer geeks you will be famous anyway.
>
>Well Gandalf is a very good " positional " chess program. In fact, in a game on
>ICC vs a Rebel Tiger clone, Gandalf hung a rook to gain a positional win... it
>put itself down my 3 pawns, then went on to win I believe 5 moves later. It
>wasn't tactical at all.. it was an odd rook sack that lead to a fantastic
>postion afterwards.. I was incredibly surprised.. it looked like a drawn game up
>to that point...


Then it was very lucky.  If it thought it was down by 3 pawns, it thought it
was losing.



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