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Subject: Re: Another Place to get CSTAL under disguise

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 15:28:33 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 don't see why it isn't a great program.

Does another program give the human opponent the same experience?

I've always thought that people had weird methods for determining whether a
computer program was strong, for their own purposes.

bruce



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