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Subject: Re: Chess Programmers vs Chess Players will have different answers!

Author: Frank Wolf

Date: 06:09:02 07/14/00

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I read some of the posts on this question and sit back and laugh.  Any real
chess player who has played many games of chess with computers KNOWS THERE IS A
BIG DIFFERENCE between chess programs with respect to human style.  Talk of
scientific proof of this is as silly as trying to prove that the great painters
created works of art.  THE COMPUTER STYLE IS TO PLAY TO OPEN THE POSITION AT
EVERY OPPORTUNITY AND WIN BY BRUTE FORCE TACTICS ALONE!  There is no attention
paid to bad bishops, knight outposts, pawn structure chess, etc.  Any class A or
better player can spot the difference.  Hiarcs 7.32 is more human-like than
Junior 6, Junior 6 is more human-like than Fritz 6, Fritz 6 is more human-like
than Fritz 5, Fritz 5 is more human-like than Fritz 4.

It's great to have the programmers giving input on this site, but they should
confine their comments to what they know, programming issues!  When they start
talking about chess, they look as silly as I would if I started giving posts
about computer chess programming.



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