Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:53:55 07/07/01
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On July 07, 2001 at 14:18:56, Chessfun wrote: >On July 07, 2001 at 10:11:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >Big Snip. > > >>But we know that they do. Roman is quite a problem for programs, for example. >>There are others. Mecking can do a reasonable job of anti-computer when he >>wants to. Most of the time Crafty (scrappy) eats him alive. But on occasion, >>he reverts to "all I want to do is draw the thing" and he will draw maybe 1/2 >>of the games and lose the rest. At blitz time controls this is not a bad >>result. > >A good point. Seems Mecking under either of his aliases can draw repeatedly if >that's what he chooses to do. But at this point in time he hasn't produced many >wins against any of the top rated programs. However Roman is quite the old hand >at play computers and in Mecking's case it may be a new thing. With hope in a >few months after further play he will also learn how to win. > >Sarah. If it wasn't for the fact that crafty actually knows something about pawn structure and endgames (majorities, etc) it would have _great_ problems with Mecking. However, it quite often simply out-plays him in endgames which keeps the match results pretty lopsided. Not all programs are doing the endgame things I am doing. I watched him swindle one top program several times the other day in endings. It simply didn't realize that a "distant majority" is a won endgame with no pieces. And it traded, and traded, and lost, and lost...
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