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Subject: Re: OK then, so the top is either DF7, CT15 or CM9K Utzinger! Am I right?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:12:54 10/31/02

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On October 30, 2002 at 21:21:41, stuart taylor wrote:
[snip]
>It is good to have the feeling that you are getting the most educated advice
>when trying to analyze a game, and if you are very hopeful that a sacrifice you
>think is ingenious, should work, you would want the program most likely to see
>the truth about it, as possible.
>And when playing, you would rather be beaten by wisdom than by your human
>frailties being exposed (which any good program can do). I mean, the greater the
>program (nowdays) the more likelihood of its wisdom. And in that way, you are
>slightly more likely to learn things from your lost games.
>That's why I keep wanting the "best" in playing strength. Not because the others
>are too easy.

In my experience, every strong chess engine has good ideas sometimes and bad
ideas sometimes.

I like to run several of them to analyze the same problem.  Usually, you can
tell which one has the best plan.



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