Author: r.c. richards
Date: 20:56:32 11/21/00
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On November 21, 2000 at 22:58:47, Helmut Conrady wrote: >On the Shredder 5 CD there are some Shredder styles created by the author. >"Kamikaze Shredder", "Gambit Shredder" and 4 others which play an interesting >style (if Shredder 5 doesn t play interesting enough for you :). I'm sure Shredder won't play interesting enough for me. I'm also sure that Christophe Theoron (sp?) is not the only guy who can come up with a program that will play an interesting style. The question is, will they do it or are they more interested in writing the strongest program that will beat other programs, boring and tentative move by boring and tentative move, like a chessplaying Bjorn Borg. Or will they write come up with some John McEnroe types of programs. I hope he does a better job with his Shredder styles than Fritz or Chessmaster have done with their variant styles. I don't know if there would be much of a market for this type of thing, but what I'd like to see is some 2700 program play a 1500 player and know it's playing a 1500 player and play like Fischer would play against a 1500 player. Gambit Tiger seems to do this. Yeah, I know, it ain't fair--lots of folks say you're supposed to play the board, but when a grandmaster sits down with a 1500 player and the grandmaster knows it's a 1500 player he's playing against, I doubt a whole lot of them play the board. I understand there may be something fraudulent in a GM playing moves that he might know another grandmaster would refute. I'm not even sure that makes any sense. I'm one of the leased versed and weakest players in this group. As such, though, I might--or might not--be representative of a large segment of the population, a part of the population a little better than Joe Average Chessplayer who doesn't know a program other than Chessmaster exists and has not even gone so far as to look around on the web, but a part of the population who's ranking is way below expert, which I think is 1900?
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