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Subject: Easier to defeat a 1650 computer than a 1650 human.

Author: Peter Hegger

Date: 08:51:35 10/23/98


I'm about a 1650 player at ICC.  Handle is "abel2" I have noticed in my games
against some weaker computer programs (wimpB, xeniac etc..) that about 65% of
the time I score the full point. These programs pretty much average about the
same rating as I do. When it comes to playing humans of about the same calibre
I'm losing 65% of my games. Am I alone in being  better at playing machines than
humans? Has anyone else noticed the same thing?
I also wonder if a GM, given the choice of playing either a 2500 computer or a
2500 human at 40/2, which would he/she choose?
BTW, I have about 400 games at ICC and 90% are blitz. Is that a large enough
sampling to be statistically relevent?
Thanks
Peter



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