Author: Sandi Ordinario
Date: 13:43:31 03/21/03
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On March 21, 2003 at 15:17:53, George Sobala wrote: >On March 21, 2003 at 14:33:21, Sandi Ordinario wrote: > >> >>Perhaps you can elucidate on "a demented spirit of Tal." Is there any other >>spirit he possesses in his games? To us mere mortals, it would seem like a >>demented spirit until we see through at almost the last moments his brilliant >>coup d'etat. He happens to be my favorite chess champion so perhaps i am taking >>exception to that comment but being a reasonable, congenial fellow, I am just >>asking for further explanation from you. >> >>My best, >>sandi > >I think you misunderstood me. I think of my Deep Sjeng personality as a >"demented spirit of Tal", not that Tal himself was demented! > >I, like you, think that Tal was one of the greatest chess geniuses ever - >Botvinnik said, when he lost his World title to Tal, that Tal did not play the >"right" moves in a position - he instead sought complications, where he could >calculate better than Botvinnik. The Deep Sjeng personality used by redshift is >a faint, faint echo of Tal's genius - at least, against players with an ICC >rating of up to 2200 or so. Thanks, George...now I am clear on it. Is Deep Sjeng really that good? Is it better than say Ruffian 1.0.1? I'd like to play against it sometime. I play at Chess.net on fridays and saturdays and there are several computers there. 3 of them I had the fortune to beat but my friend Pavel or Ed Panek, instituted a formula where no human player under 1800 may play them. This is unfair I think. It does lighten their load in conducting the game against humans but for humans who would wish to improve the quality or strength of their game by playing a computer the chance has been sorely curtailed. When I was beating these computers my rating went up to over 2000 but now I had been losing to 1500s so my present rating is now 1760. A few more points and I can play against Pavel's computers again, I hope. Perhaps Pavel has a Sjeng or if you play in that website, you could play me by being assisted by the redshift version of Sjeng. What say you, my friend? My very best, sandi
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