Author: Will Singleton
Date: 18:25:46 04/08/02
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On April 08, 2002 at 20:54:35, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On April 08, 2002 at 20:23:57, Will Singleton wrote: > >> >>Wow, ugly game. I'm having a hard time understanding this, it seems illogical. >>Are you playing many games, then selecting the one Sjeng loses? If so, how >>many? > >I have played many games against other winboard programs such as Gaviota, >Bestia, faile, Movei, and even against Novag Turqouise; but against Sjeng so far >only three and the first one I did NOT included since I was using 12 MB default >for my Celeron 433 Mhz and my Celeron only had 32 MB of memory up until >yesterday when I decided to upgrade it to 128 MB. > > >I really don't have much time to test CTP 14.9 since like most of us I do have a >job. And to answer your silly question, I don't select games, as a matter of >fact I was as dubious as you are now, and before I had Chess Tiger for Palm I >also was a disbeliever to even consider CTP to be close to being of an expert >strength. The only reason why I continue to test CTP 14.9 is probably because I >resemble you in a way, I'm still NOT too conviced that such a little Gizmo can >accomplish so much against programs that are considered close to 2400 in >strength, but the more I test this Little Beast, the more I have to accept the >fact that it is amazinly strong. > >Pichard. Look, I appreciate that you test and post games. My question was prompted by comparing your posted game with sjeng 12L, which seemed to avoid several poor moves (though I must admit, it did play BxN with the fiachettoed bishop, then went on to destroy its own kside). I don't think my question was silly at all. Had you posted your methodology, I wouldn't have had to question you. It's a reasonable thing to ask. I don't believe CT for Palm is a strong program, simply due to its limited search depth. Relative to other Palm progs, it may be very strong. But it will lose 90% of games to any reasonable pc prog. I'll pit my crummy prog against CT palm, and will bet money it will not do less than, say 8.5/10. Want to bet? How much? Will
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