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Subject: Re: How many killers? & Random chess & Has anyone NOT tried this?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 23:42:33 09/30/98

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On September 27, 1998 at 16:04:19, Jari Huikari wrote:

>On September 27, 1998 at 14:39:11, Roberto Waldteufel wrote:
>
>>>I added random feature to Nero 4. (Explained in the end of its FAQ-file.)
>>>Makes randomly one of the legal moves. Can OCCASIONALLY beat KASPAROV... :-)
>
>>I may be misunderstanding you, but if it plays random moves, I doubt if it would
>>even beat a weak player, and certainly not Kasparov - I would need to see the
>>game to be convinced!
>
>One can choose FOR AMUSEMENT a SPECIAL LEVEL in which Nero moves randomly.
>Just a curiosity. Totally randomly choosed one of the legal moves in the
>position. Not evaluating anything. So it plays certainly very bad and loses
>to everyone, but VERY OCCASIONALLY it COULD win Kasparov... :-) But it must
>then have perfectly good luck... :-)
>
>In ordinary levels there is nothing random in Nero. It calculates which
>move is best and makes it. (Except calculations are not deep enough, and
>horizon effect causes bad moves sometimes. So far (program is very new one,
>started month ago) it searches all moves to same depth.)
>
>Example random playing: (This time it seems not to be Kasparov beating)
>
>1. Na3 d6 2. g4 Nh6 3. Nf3 e5 4. d4 Nxg4 5. dxe5 c5 6. Qd3 Ke7 7. Qe3 d5
>8. Qh6 Qa5+ 9. Nd2 Qxa3 10. Qh4+ Nf6 11. c4 Kd7 12. exf6 Qd3 ...
>
>	Best Wishes
>					Jari

This is one of the funniest games I have ever played over.  Thanks! :)

Dave Gomboc



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