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Subject: Re: Mephisto Miami handheld chess computer - I bought it!

Author: John Coffey

Date: 19:43:01 10/15/98

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On October 15, 1998 at 21:47:08, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>
>Hi Heiko:
>The way I face the overwheelming superiority of any top program over me is this:
>I do not begin the game with the fool idea I could win, but just saying to me
>"this bastard must work hard to beat me today". If I reach move 40 with a decent
>position I feel almost as I won the game, and if the bastard is coerced to play
>an ending with very deep technicalities to win, then I feel almost happy.
>Fernando

Most hand-helds have big endgame weaknesses, so surviving to the endgame
might win the game.

John Coffey



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