Author: George Sobala
Date: 14:11:39 03/21/03
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On March 21, 2003 at 16:43:31, Sandi Ordinario wrote: >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 Sorry - redshift only runs on ICC, but it will play anyone (registered) of any rating. And the personality I use is definitely much weaker than Ruffian - but it is a lot of fun and should challenge you greatly.
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