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Subject: Re: Chessmaster weaker as black?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:11:12 12/02/00

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On December 02, 2000 at 03:29:56, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On December 02, 2000 at 02:55:47, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>1.  All non-buggy programs play weaker with black, as do all persons.
>
>That's a rather bold statement, I think.  Perhaps better to say "have worse
>results with black" than to say "play weaker with black", but I'm sure that's
>still not true for all non-buggy programs and all people.

Yes,badly phrased.  'They have a higher game theoretic outcome when given one
tempo advantage' would have been more precise.

>>2.  It will take hundreds of games to get a real feel for how strong a program
>>is.
>
>This, I agree with. :)



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