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Subject: Re: Amen Brother.

Author: william penn

Date: 14:59:31 06/05/01

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On June 05, 2001 at 17:51:41, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>Mr. Penn,
>
>I agree.  There is not much challenge in Comp-comp except in saying how
>brilliant the moves are.  We lower players don't have the mental horsepower to
>play at the grandmaster level.
>
>The chess programmers as a group really do put an effort into such things as
>databases and opening books though.  Ed and Chris have given us very exciting
>programs.
>
>Tim Frohlick
>
>On June 05, 2001 at 17:37:58, william penn wrote:
>
>>
>> How many agree? Ed Shroeder is the only programmer out there that is honestly
>>trying to improve his program for play against humans, everyoneelse just want s
>>attention and to be number 1 of the ssdf list, which has value, but doesn't
>>reflect programs strengths against humans. PEOPLE forget the century 1 over a
>>period of 28 games achieved a fide rating of 2563, and then went on in the next
>>version to defeat a Expert computer Basher in a six game match, What other
>>program has achieved such a feat??????????  Who cares about how computers play
>>against each other.


I think Century 3 is way underestimated. It's not that great against other
computers but man can it play solid positional chess



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