Author: James Robertson
Date: 17:02:05 10/17/98
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On October 17, 1998 at 18:40:40, Heiko Mikala wrote: >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? The chessmaster (5500) liked 24. Rxh7!! I can't remember how it's analysis went, but that would end the game with mate in 8 or something. Crafty like 24. f6 too, with mate in 7. > >>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. > When I can see the pv, I tend to make whatever move the program thinks will keep the eval + for me, even if it's terrible! James >Greetings, > >Heiko.
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