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Subject: Re: Paris WMCCC - were programs better than in Jakarta (1996)?

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 11:32:11 11/12/97

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On November 12, 1997 at 10:24:01, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:


>I think that the level of chess is increasing continiously
>from year to year. Some years ago you could play some weak
>moves and were still able to win the game.
>Today the first bad move loses the game. It is also very difficult
>for me to find the mistakes in Shredder's lost games.
>I am still not sure where it went wrong in the games against
>Junior and Chess Guru.
>If somebody can help me plese do so.

In the Junior game white's opening looked suspect. Those white
kingside pawns advanced before black had castled, eventually leaving
white's king exposed. Easy of course to point this out in hindsight
but it may just be one of those many openings that cause problems
for computers.



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