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Subject: Re: Any Opinions on K-Chess elite 3.5

Author: Michael Cummings

Date: 16:03:31 10/28/00

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On October 28, 2000 at 11:54:41, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>H:
>Actually I consider KChess-Elite 3.5 a decently strong program, but not good
>enough for a real experienced chess player. If it happens that at the same time
>is too strong for a beginner, then this program face a real problem because,
>then, it has not a market niche. Even more, the flaw would be serious as much
>this program has been created precisely for beginners or more or less casual
>players or people that has just the desire to learn and so it should be friendly
>with them with a real weak level. Anyway, it has a pretty gui and some other
>features worthy of attention, so I think that if the author could get the
>concour of some other programmers in order to add some new and stronger engines
>-the current one is an adaptation of an old engine of the 80's or beginning of
>90's- I would be interested in getting the stuff.
>Fernando

Yes, I just played a few games at what should be its weakest. It made some
rather foolish decisions early in the game, but then went onto later in the game
to play very accurate and when I tried to play like a newcomer, went on to
finish and go in the for kill very fast and deadly.

My next door nighbour is a novice and plays very little but can easily beat a
newcomer, and he also to lost two games he played against it at its weakest
level. Its like a good chess player letting you take four peices in a row while
sitting and doing nothing about it, and when you get all confident it plays some
killer chess in which it see a sequence of moves no begginner would come close
to doing and finishing the game in a blink of a eye. Which is what happens.

It lets you take peices for no reason, then goes on to check mating you with no
problem

Thanks for your imput Fernando, I asked about version 3.0 when I first joined
CCC and you were the first to rely to that over two years back.



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