Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 05:51:18 11/18/02
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On November 17, 2002 at 17:01:45, Eelco de Groot wrote: >Hallo Marc, > >I'm sorry that you could not find your own stuff back. I have had that myself a >few times, that I wondered if the moderators had, in their infinite wisdom, >decided that in retrospect something better had not ever been written and thrown >out a whole line of conversation with it. Of course it could not have been my >post that they objected to... Only then of course I did find that I was just >looking in the wrong place. > >Thanks for your remarks in your post, especially what you said that the types of >moves a program is looking at also can help you to understand a position better, >or make a plan of your own. I think that is certainly true. > >Funny that you mentioned the "Dukes of Hazard" in your post above, the one that >I am now answering to. I had been away a few days last week on Wednesday and >Thursday, I only read this whole thread now about the misunderstandings this >Sunday. I had been reading some old dinosaur stuff earlier from the CCC search >engine and there I came across a post where Tim Frohlick mentions the Dukes of >Hazard too. Maybe it's nice to reread it: > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Subject : Re: The Adventures of Boris the Talking Chess Computer. > >Posted by : Mark Ryan on April 08, 2000 at 20:15:14 > >On April 08, 2000 at 16:29:24, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>I was rolling down the Washington Beltway back in the warm month of May 1980 >>playing a nice game of chess with my buddy Boris. Boris and I were opening with >>a nice Ruy Lopez and he was set to his highest level of about 1000 USCF. I >>slowly crushed him and it was a good day for him to die. I shut him off and put >>the pieces away and closed his walnut box. I forgot what he said when he >>lost.... It has been so long ago. >> >>When I got home my wife asked me if I was playing chess while driving. "Yes, >>dear, I was!" " You stupid bastard---don't you know that you could get in an >>accident that way??." was her aggravated response. I must admit that it was >>fun. I reassured her that I would play only when the car was not moving. This >>sounds like cellphone city doesn't it? >> >>Boris took many trips with me into the hills of Virginia and the Smoky Mountains >>and.... It was a sad day that I sold Boris to a fellow from North Carolina by >>the name of Bell. Mr. Bell was a true Southern gentleman who loved the "Dukes >>of Hazard". He treated Boris very well and Boris endured his poor play with >>respect. Alas, poor Boris finally fell apart and went to the computer chess >>heaven in the sky. I was on my way to bigger and faster opponents but Boris was >>my first pretty good chess-playing box. >> >>May he rest in pieces. >> >> >>Tim Frohlick > >Hi: Speaking of talking chess computers, I once played a blitz game against >Fritz 5.32 in Handicap mode; I set it to a very weak "Patzer" or "Moron" level. >The game was blunder-filled by both sides, but finally I attained a winning >position. Then I played a quick move, and Fritz said, "Ooooh, I am going to >enjoy analyzing this one!", after which Fritz moved his queen slowly, very >slowly (about one-fifth the usual speed) from one side of the board to the other >... and checkmated me! >Mark :( lol Infact the threat curious was based on principles that I made most of my analyzes in the way I mentioned in the EOC Nunn still can be found in for instance the line found in the Rebel book after the Winawer variation of the french after Ba5 a chess program plays to regain the pawn at once but the meaning of that line was to work around it. So infact like it is now that line is meaningless. Infact because of strange kingsafety it will not even like what comes next till it'find it is winning. Marc >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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