Author: Hermano Ecuadoriano
Date: 09:12:05 11/18/00
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On November 18, 2000 at 08:40:36, Arshad Syed wrote: > > >Fritz and Junior completely anhilated their opponents in the KC human-machine >challenge. Junior played some remarkable human-esque chess in a couple of its >games. One of them was a gem, where DJ disregards pawn material and instead >launches a ferocious attack on the kingside. The only other computer game that >was so human-like was the Hiarcs-Deen Hergott match which involved a >Queen/Knight sacrifice by the computer. > >All this and hardly any mention in this NG, except for a handful of >congratulatory messages. I mean I have seen much longer and more animated >discussions for lesser quality comp-human games on the ICC, with moves being >discussed in microscopic detail. > snip snip > >Regards, >Arshad I'll tell you why _I_ did not get excited: 1. That computers are crushing players of this strength at this time control is no longer news, and I don't find it at all interesting _anymore_. (You can watch this every day in ICC.) 2. I _don't_ think their play was as beautiful as some have claimed. Almost all of it was just more of the same old thing. If I cared to, I could show you this using the game scores. 3. These programs or similar ones have earned similar performance ratings against humans in other events. 4. I don't like Junior. 5. I was busy with several other things that I did find interesting: a. If you want to see something exciting, this guy JRLOK is STILL beating SCRAPPY at 5 3 or 5 7 (I think). b. Gandalf (as val-vipp I think?) is playing closed positions noticeably well! You can watch this about every day in ICC also. Unless I'm imagining things, this IS news. c. The Tigers might be displaying a new degree of purposefulness and "understanding" in their play, and I've been studying the PGN, and watching them on ICC, to see whether or not this is true. I think it is, based on watching games between Tiger13 and Fritz6 on ICC, and I bought Rebel11. d. Did you hear? Did EVERYBODY hear? There are now several GUI's in which one can play engine-engine matches WITHOUT that old OUTRAGEOUS HASHTABLE-CLEARING after every move. I'm not a tester. I'm just enjoying proclaiming this LOUDLY. (There were some hot threads about this a year or two ago. I've been away...) e. I so inspired myself with a posting I made praising Tiger13, that I started to play more loosely and ambitiously myself. And MY rating has been going up in ICC!!
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