Author: Heiko Mikala
Date: 15:40:40 10/17/98
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Hi James! On October 17, 1998 at 17:37:28, James Robertson wrote: >Yipee! My first win against Arasan 4.1! Congratulations, James! By the way, a very beautiful game. I guess I would have become a bit nervous from move 17 on, when Arasans troops marched up in front of your king... but your move 24. f6 was the final punch, wasn't it? >All the more exciting because I deviated >from the very successful tactics of taking back moves and peeking at the >computer's thinking. :) Yes, I think this is the trick. I've always been most succesful against com- puters, when I turned off the display of the analysis info (principal variation and evaluation score). I guess this is, because watching the computers evalualtion makes us nervous (there comes the point where the computer gives itself a positive score!) and looking at it's PV makes us play his suggested moves instead of what we would normally play. Greetings, Heiko.
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