Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 18:14:43 01/22/01
From time to time I am tempted to play a second rate program in order to see how I handle them after playing just top notch animals. It is kind of an experiment to see if the trainning you have got playing so awesome opponents give you and edge over not so strong beats. And of course there is the desire to get a win after so many loses or difficults draws. But the results tends to be disappointing. My experience is that after you have got used to play so good programs, playing a second rate one is very frustrating. Each time they play a mediocre or bad move, you feel your drive to play your best move goes down very quick. And being so, at the end it happens that the second rate program win you or you scarcely get a draw in an awfully ugly or stupid position and all this after losing an amount of time you feel you could have been expended best playing the real thing. In other words, if the second rate pet provides you with a less strong program by, say, 40% less rating, you, in those conditions, lose 75% of your own. So you probe nothing except the many ways life offer you a chance to lose time. BTW, second rate programs I do not mean neccesarily freeware programs. I mean obsolete commercial programs or shareware programs of the kind you find in non chessic sites. What's your experience? Fernando
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