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Subject: Re: Which of the programs have the most knowledge programmed into it?

Author: David Blackman

Date: 02:27:44 07/12/00

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On July 11, 2000 at 04:53:07, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 11, 2000 at 04:41:27, David Blackman wrote:
>

>>1. h3
>>
>>Please extrapolate ...
>
>World champion.  The bold confidence is postively exuded by the upstart
>"Desperado."  We see further that this brilliant ploy has pulled VChess out of
>book right off the bat.

That was the idea. Sadly it didn't work because VChess doesn't have a book.

>If, by some bizarre accident of fate, VChess should
>gain the victory it would only be due to some minor bug (perhaps introduced
>deliberately in an attempt to 'dumb-down' the program to a level where ordinary
>mortals will not run away screaming) which is easily corrected.
>
>There is no question that Desperado is Super GM level and any results which
>indicate otherwise are merely a clever ruse by the author to sandbag.

:-)

White did win that game. But that might say more about black's strength than
white's. Desperado is not world champion strength, at least not yet.



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