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Subject: Which chess engine can best do this?

Author: Nick Wilson

Date: 11:22:52 02/05/03

I'm rated around 1900 and have long since been used to being beaten by the
leading chess programs. I haven't bought any new versions for several years
because of this. I'm pretty sure I could be given knight or bishop odds to any
2600+ program and I'd still lose.

But can any program available today be set to a special mode whereby it
willingly sacrifices a peice (or two) to rip open my position and then crush me
with its 2600+ rated attack.

Obviously any such sacrificial attack would most likely be unsound, but being
only 1900 I probably wouldn't be able to defend many of them completely
correctly and I'd end up losing. It'd certainly make the game a lot more fun.

I know when I play people rated more than 500 elo lower than me, I can happily
play unsound sacs and still win flashily (albeit unsoundly).

So I want a mode for my 2600 elo opponent to do (or try to do) the same to me!
In a nutshell - sac peices and win flashily (even if it is unsound or risky)

Any suggestions?

• Re: Which chess engine can best do this? Georg v. Zimmermann 05:47:53 02/06/03
• Re: Which chess engine can best do this? James T. Walker 14:28:18 02/05/03
• Re: Which chess engine can best do this? Christophe Drieu 13:50:37 02/05/03
• Re: Which chess engine can best do this? Nick Wilson 13:40:18 02/05/03
  • Re: Which chess engine can best do this? Chessfun 13:47:50 02/05/03
    • Re: Which chess engine can best do this? Nick Wilson 14:56:52 02/05/03
• Re: Which chess engine can best do this? Chris Carson 11:37:34 02/05/03
• Re: Which chess engine can best do this? Roy Brunjes 11:34:14 02/05/03
• Re: Which chess engine can best do this? Jonas Cohonas 11:33:53 02/05/03

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