Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 22:38:20 08/28/98
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On August 27, 1998 at 17:15:12, Ralph E. Carter wrote: >At one point, the kibitzers were noting that the position was "ugly", and >correctly pointed out its defects. >Then over the next fifteen moves, the REAL grandmaster reorganized his position, >while Junior moved its queen around. >This game was an embarrassment for Junior. This is the danger in playing real chess against a real strong player. The program makes the best moves it can, but the opponent finds better moves and wins. There are a lot of ways to lose a chess game, but a couple of obvious ones are a tactical mistake, or a positional error that can be exploited, and is exploited. Chess programs do make tactical mistakes, but a bigger danger is this second problem. Since Yudasin is a high rated player, he is going to win some games, which means that Junior is going to make some mistakes, which will be exploited. These games will end in losses, which usually involve some sort of positional ugliness, followed by positional disintegration, followed by tactical disintegration. This isn't fun if you are the one who is losing. When you play a strong player, you go into it knowing that this will happen to you sometimes. So please give Junior a break. Give some credit to its opponent, and be grateful to both players for providing you with nice entertainment, rather than picking on the program because it got dented by one of the best chess players on the planet. bruce
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