Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:49:13 10/16/98
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On October 15, 1998 at 22:43:01, John Coffey wrote: >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 Hi John: Of course I was talking of TOP programs, and surely Travel is not. Yes, endfings with that class of machines are a winning for me, although not ever. Problem with no-so-strong programs is that you never take it enough seriously and so your top perfomance weakens a lot more than the difference between the top program and the non top program you are playing. This pertains to the psychology of chess computers area, where I am tempted to post or write for WCCR very soon. Fernando
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