Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:23:08 05/23/98
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On May 22, 1998 at 21:51:52, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Then CSTAL seemed to me no more interesting and daring, but stupid >and clumsy. Well, after that I managed to lose a lot of games to CSTAL, >so I am now looking at it as a marvel again. Defeat is ugly, as I know >very well each time I lose a hard hand of poker. Luckily, rarely. About two years ago my program got a few blitz games with IM Ronen Har Zvi on ICC. He's now a GM, but he wasn't at that time. It had been playing very well up until that point, but against this fellow it got completely smashed, it did the Kh1-g1 thing, it pushed pawns and left holes, it dropped material in the center of the board, etc. It got so bad that I started fiddling around trying to figure out if I was running at half speed, or thrashing or something. I looked to see if I was running the program twice, or if I had something else big going on. Nothing -- he was just forcing my program into situations where it didn't have anything constructive to do. It was at that point I discovered the phenonemon that you describe here. A good player not only makes good moves, they'll expose bad ones that don't immediately appear to be bad. bruce
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