Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:38:13 03/07/02
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On March 06, 2002 at 22:41:53, Uri Blass wrote:
>On March 06, 2002 at 22:25:50, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On March 06, 2002 at 19:20:34, Rich Van Gaasbeck wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>A 4 plies search on this kind of computer would take a really long time by
>>>>todays standards (more than one minute IIRC).
>>>>
>>>>At level one I guess all it can do is 1 or 2 plies.
>>>
>>>I think I used to play most games a level 2. It didn't seem to miss many
>>>two-move tactics, but maybe I made a lot that it never took advantage of and I
>>>never new I allowed.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>I also believe the Chess Challenger 7 and Chess Challenger 10 were using a
>>>>selective search, but it was prone to many kinds of errors.
>>>>
>>>>But at that time they were great machines. I remember playing many games (I
>>>>still have the games scores somewhere here) circa 1980 against the Chess
>>>>Challenger 10 (it was not mine), and it has been with the Boris computers and
>>>>the Sargon II program on TRS-80 the begining of my passion for computer chess.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I'll never be a grandmaster, I may never be a master, but someday, I'll crush my
>>>CC7 like a bug :-). Kasparov has Karpov, I have CC7.
>>
>>
>>
>>Between you and me, I'm not sure I could crush the CC7 like a bug even at level
>>3... :)
>>
>>Knowing that Tiger could is enough for me! :)
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>I am sure you can if you decide that it is your target and learn to be better on
>tactics.
>
>I believe that almost every human can become a master
>if (s)he learns chess when the most important part is to learn to be better in
>tactics.
>
>I never trained seriously in the way that was suggested here on tactics and
>inspite of it and inspite of the fact that I have not good memory to play
>blindfold games I have a stable rating that is close to 2000.
>
>Uri
I think you are right but it would drain a lot of energy from me to keep
concentrated enough to not miss 4 or 5 plies tactics.
It is strange because programming is a little bit like that. When you want to
make a change in a program it's like computing chess tactics: you have to
foresee all the consequences and all the places where some change is going to be
needed. And I'm not too bad at this.
Christophe
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