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Subject: Re: example for stupid/weak Fritz5, pgn-game

Author: Mark Young

Date: 19:20:42 05/29/98

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Come on Thorsten. Lets get real here. Chess System Tal is a good
program. But its light years away for the strenght of Nimzo98, Junior
4.6, or Fritz 5.
You only call other people bean counters, because that is the only way
you have to defend Chess system Tal's poor showing. Chess System Tal is
getting killed by the dumb fast searches.

If you want to judge programs on how pretty you think they play. Fine.
They rest of us will bean count. You know why, because that how you tell
if someone or some thing is better at chess. Thats the way it has always
been done. After Alekhine beat Capablanca. I wounder if Capablanca took
comfort in the fact that some people thought he played Pretty, and more
positional looking moves. The point is you can try to make a program
play very positional looking moves. But if its not sound tacticlly, its
not worth much. Remember even the positionally minded Humans say that
chess is 90% tactics. I tend to think the real nature of chess is 100%
tactics.



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