Author: Walter Koroljow
Date: 17:41:09 01/23/01
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On January 22, 2001 at 21:14:43, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 I have very little experience since I use programs mostly for analysis. But I just inherited a Mephisto Milano stand-alone unit. I played for tactical complications and was blown off the board! Cheers, Walter
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