Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 15:41:05 12/22/02
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On December 22, 2002 at 18:28:33, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 I always used the method "If it can kill me it is strong". I have yet to find a chess engine that is not "strong". :) Peter.
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