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Subject: Re: We Need a Chess Engine Designed to Play Speculative Chess

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 13:51:56 10/26/02

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On October 25, 2002 at 08:12:29, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On October 25, 2002 at 01:24:49, ludicrous wrote:
>
>>Not really, but the fact that a CSTal suggests such a speculative shot for more
>>than 5 minutes indicate the level of 'human-ness' of CSTAL.
>>I do not know however if any other program would even suggest Nxf7.
>>The only other program I know with such high levels of speculation is Junior 7.
>>See for yourself Junior 7 suggest Kasparov's Rxd5!!! (no other program can even
>>suggest the move!) and stick to it, in his widely known game Kasparov-Topalov (i
>>am sorry I do not know the year or place)...or even many of  Petrosian's curious
>>moves.
>
>Chess System Tal was designed to play in this way.
>
>It was designed for playing speculative, saccing for an idea,
>creating trouble on board. it is IMO very good in those things.
>only that the search is not anymore state of the art.
>
>but the rest of the program is IMO marvellous.
>
>it would need a new and fresher search.


What are the chances of that happening?



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