Author: Frank Wolf
Date: 17:13:02 12/27/01
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In most cases, the strength of a strong player is not based on tactial ability. They are all good at tactics (in human terms) with some GMs being a little better than others. The real strength of the human GM is positional play. Chess programs that always try to open the postion at turn chess into a war of calcuation to not play in a human style. The most extreem example of this would be the early Fritz programs. Conversly, programs like Hiarcs 7.32, Rebel and Shredder 5.32/6 do play postional chess (in computer terms). When I sit down to play a tatcically oriented program, I will lose. But the maner in which I lose is very different than when I play a strong human. Conversly, playing a program like Shredder (full strength) I will lose, but the flavor of the game is more like I was playing a human than a machine and is thus more satisfying to me personally.
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