Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:40:25 05/29/01
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On May 29, 2001 at 15:29:17, Mike S. wrote: >On May 29, 2001 at 13:44:04, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>(...) > >>Those few moves where you look at it and say "What in the world can that be?" >>and have to look at it for 15 minutes to understand what is going on -- to me >>that is the essense of good chess. If I can guess the right move over and over >>again, I know the chess is not terrific, because [cough] I understand it. >>;-) > >I couldn't agree more. That is also what I expect from computer chess... >surprising, brilliant moves and ideas. It's good when the programs can find what >masters have found and played before, but of course it's even better when a >program plays such moves itself, like Ferret did in this example. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl What I'm happy about is that it created the chance to find a shot, albeit a marginal shot, since all the fun is in the side-variation. You can be great at finding shots, but if you never achieve a position where there are shots to find, it doesn't do you much good. bruce
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