Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:40:33 06/13/01
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Probably it is a matter of style. The one by Century is very positional, my strong point. I can handle that, to a degree. Fritz is more prone to tactics, but they are of a kind well inside my capability to grasp them, although even so losing a lot. Schredder is a different ball game. I am just killed in the openning. It has a very good book and if you does not know enough, as in my case, you are doomed from the start. No way. A curious case for me is CSTAL II. Presuposedly it is not a real strong program, but his wild style has just the neccesary recipe to kill me. Probably a matter of age. He attacks once and again and although you can see every point of its attacks, for an older man like me what happens is that after the N attack you just lose concentration and got killed in attack N+1. With age -I am 52- you know better and you see better...until the second hour of the game. Then your brain get tired and all begin to go down. When younger I was capable of very long calculations, but I did not know a shit. I remember a mate I gave to Constellation 3,6 in a shot 14 moves long and it was not a naked tree kind of variation. I could not do that by now... but I would kill the bastard more often. Fernando
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