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Subject: Re: The ' Mint ' Winboard-engine available for download!

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 18:54:44 07/04/00

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On July 04, 2000 at 18:26:00, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On July 04, 2000 at 13:18:53, Chrille wrote:
>
>>I'm glad you like my webpage, nobody has complained about it yet
>>thankfully :) Unfortunately Mint is not at all as strong as Bringer
>>or Comet. Even the old versions I have beat it comfortably. Mint
>>was never designed with computer opponents in mind, it's designed
>>to provoke and attack to take advantage of human defensive errors.
>>Computers don't make that many defensive errors :( But Mint isn't
>>really too good at attacking anyway. It's simply too slow...
>
>No, it's definitely not as strong as Comet and Bringer, but probably somewhere
>around the 2000 mark alongside programs like Sjeng, ColChess and Crux. It might
>not be terribly strong, but the playing style is quite interesting and
>agressive. The facial evaluation style is something of a novelty. That feature
>alone makes it essential in my collection of WinBoard programs.
>
>>I think it's fun to play, speaking as a human.
>
>I'll try to challenge Mint for a game of chess when I get some spare time, but I
>fear I'll end up losing miserably.
>
>Best wishes...
>Mogens
>
>PS: BTW, nice website.

Don't try to cheat and take back moves.  It messed things real bad when I tried
to cheat.

Chrille, can we add more lines to the opening book file to tailor it to an
opening we like, or is there a restriction to the amount of variations in that
file?

Pete





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