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Subject: Re: What is important in computerchess?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 10:42:16 04/17/98

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On April 17, 1998 at 07:20:48, Georg Langrath wrote:

>All this talk about strength. I suppose that 99.9 % of us are beaten
>from all modern chessprograms if it plays about 10 seconds per move.. So
>what is important? Features, I think. Of course it is of interest to see
>how strong a computerchess can be. But  I think that  for usual buyers
>the other features should be more emphasised.

Features and playing style.

Nobody wants to play against something that plays like oatmeal, even if
the oatmeal program is objectively stronger than non-oatmeal programs,
assuming there are any.

bruce



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