Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 18:33:09 02/26/01
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Hi sarah: Yes, I knew about winboard gui and the rest. In that you are right. And I was ready to accept it, although I do not like that gui, because I thought it was compensated by the strenght. IMHO is not. Maybe the program is good against other programs, but for a strong human player is not. With this I do not make a reference to the games I win, but on the contrary, to my loses. Problem is that today, given the standard quality of top programs, you expect something better even in the way to be defeated. You wanto to be defeated in certain ways more interesting that just the old path of a pasive animal awaiting your inacuraccies. These days you expect not just sharpness to get a pawn from you in move 35. You ask for character, style, verve, even a kind of wit or at least wild endeavours. You expect a program that knows how to attack and does not just wait until, deep in boredom, you commit some mistake. I am sure that if you have gandalf and you have played it, you will concur with me that the least it can be said of it is the indifference of his abilities. Nevertheless a guy here said in a post, a week ago or so, commenting my first one about this issue, something lot stronger: "no, it is just a bad program". Well... Fernando
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