Author: Garry Evans
Date: 16:48:06 01/30/01
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On January 30, 2001 at 17:41:33, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi all: >I have just finished two games with gandalf, both with me handling white at 40 >moves in 90 minutes. My Pc runs at 500 Mhz and hash tables are more than 60 Mb. >And my impression is not very impressive. I had heard about the positional play >of this program but at least in these two games there is more a pasive atittude >than positional acumen. In the first game, played in the CB Gui, Gandalf did >not take not even a pawn. He just tried to parry my threaths and finally he got >what he wanted: a dead position I declared a draw because the rule of three >yawns repetition. The second one, played in WB gui, was more alive because I >tried to push a little more in order to get some fun. Gandalf was almost all the >time more than 0.50 points behind me and was never capable of pushing the king >side in the opening he chose, a king indian defense. At last, around move 50, I >declared draw -with 0,75 in my favour- due to lack of time - yes, I must work >from time to time- and exhaustion of my patience. >I wonder if something is wrong in my settings or what. There is somebody with >the same impression of gandalf being somewhat indifferent in his playing >ability? My impression is pretty much the same as yours, I think I am perhaps alittle more critical, as I believe that gandalf plays lousy chess, and was a Huge waste of money! >And not, I did not save the games. >Fernando
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