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Subject: Re: Are Anti-Computer Chess Strategies always possible?

Author: odell hall

Date: 15:07:27 07/05/01

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On July 05, 2001 at 17:54:53, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi Odell:
>Although I cannot care less about anticomputer strategies because I purchase
>chess  programs to plays CHESS, not to apply some kind of recipe to win a game
>similar to chess, I know that the so called anticomputer strategy consist in
>blocking the center, foster a close position everywhere except in the king side
>and in that sector to push an slow attack on the computer king. All this can be
>got with some specific openings, Colle system by example.
>For me all that is sheer nosense. Which is the need to beat the beast using, for
>that, a narrow technique that neccesarily rest pleasure and variety to the game?
>I can understand a player, in a tourn, looking for specific ways to win his
>opponents, but in an isolated  and unimportant game played for fun, it is self
>defeating, a system to substract the very reason you got a program.
>Why?
>Because you bought it to play and get fun or you bought to train for getting a
>best play againts human, so again you need to play real, clasic chess, no
>anticomputer recipes.
>Well, there is people for any kind of tastes...
>fernando.]


Hi Ferando


 I like you play normal chess, i wouldn't begin to know what anti-computer chess
is, or how to apply it, i think it is easier to say then to do, i think only the
supergrandmasters have enough understanding about chess to really apply these
strategies succesffully, and i am not sure of that since Deep fritz and deep
juniors results at dormund.



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