Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:52:10 12/22/02
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On December 22, 2002 at 16:24:12, James T. Walker wrote: >On December 22, 2002 at 11:52:19, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>It is this: http://www.mindscape.co.uk/products/ProductInfo.asp?pid=251 >>Get it: with any name is the most entertainning program ever to this day. >>Fernando > >The average chess player is around 1500 USCF and for those people CSTal is not >even close to Chessmaster for entertainment/training/playing levels/ etc. etc. >etc. CSTal is relagated to just a curiosity now. When it was developed it >could have been a great program if the programmer had not been so stubborn about >giving it maximum knowledge while sacrificing depth. It also has a couple of >bugs which he never bothered to fix (much like CB). Other than that it is >interesting to play against. >Jim Walker I do not think that knowledge is the reason for chess system tal's failure. I do not think that knowledge is a reason not to search deeper because knowledge can help for better pruning rules. chess system tal has simply bugs. Thorsten reported bug in null move pruning and I remember that he suggested a style without null move pruning for fast computers). I also rememebr another bug when chess system tal believed wrong mate in one of thorsten's tournament. I believe that the programmer simply decided to leave chess for other games. Uri
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