Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 18:05:23 11/16/00
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Well, very impressed means, in this field, very crushed. Mauled. Trashed. Humiliated. Look: this afternoon I had lot of time to spare so I played a game againts Century 3. It was at 40 moves in 90 minutes, muy usual setting. I got a nice position, I was all the time at least .22 point above the program and finally the program got a draw more because I became tired and somewhat distracted, my usual weakness. So I left him to slip away. Surely there were ways for me to win IF I had begun from the position in move 30 or so, fresh in mind and spirit. Anyway It was very funny, very good game. And then I felt happy but not impressed. Not that the program is not strong, it is, but against him I felt strong also. Then, incensed for my perfomance, I begun another game againts Gambint, same setting. Yes, I was already tired because the effort expended in the first game -some moves required very exact judgement; some time I took 15 minutes to get the correct continuation- but anyway Gambit trounced me very fast. Sort of an improved, more precise CSTAL in my opinion, as Thorsten say. And he is right. Well, when you can draw and almost win a so strong program as Century but then you are treated like a child by another, You got IMPRESSED. Probably a matter of style. Against positional play, I, positional player, am not easy to beat. At least I have good chances. But against a criminal I am in the wilderness. Not that I do not see tactics, but I do see a lot more the strategic lines and features of the game and I tend to concentrate the main of my effort in that. Bad system, I believe. I was trained like that. So if a program launch an attack, where all is tactics, sooner or later I will be outsearched. Same happens to me with CASTAL, but with Gambit there is another thing: he attacks BUT he does not destroy his position doing so. Then you cannot even see the light at the end of the tunnel in order to say "If I survive this, I will punish the beast in the ending". Nope. So I am Impressed. Regards Fernando
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