Author: Karl Dammer
Date: 11:00:42 08/31/03
I am curious how skillful is this program in real terms? I have been playing it and at first it seemed invincible to me evn on the 1600-1700 rated Hans who I began against. He beat me so badly and so consistenty I actaully went to the Classroom and did the tutorials and studies Joshs games and things. I'm curious now how good CM is actually is. I can outclass the 1600-1700 raters with a fair degree of ease now and if my endgame was a bit better I could probably win the CM9000 personality itself with regularity. In that particular case my weak endgame means even taking a strong lead into the endgame winds up with me being slowly and surly twsited around into a loss. I guess this sounds like an ego filler 'how good am I' question, and I guess in some ways it is. I am quite buoyant about having learned from all the tutorials and lessons and adavanced to a much stronger game. It just leaves me curious, was I just rank awful to begin with and should have been able to hold my own anyway or is the CM actually quite a skillful challenge? All in I am just very happy , I learned chess very young but I never really took it any further than the fun side of it. I suppose I was always decent against the normal human players you encounter in your life. I never really developed a strong technical side to my game having always thrived on a sort of instinctive aggresive form of play. I haven't played for a few years which is strange because I have always loved the game, I guess I never really had anyone to play with regularly so let it slip. Coming back to it and getting into a more intimate style of game has been immensely rewarding for me, I am really enjoying the game again. Having gone from the certainty that I would never be able to match the computer and being extremely frustrated by the fact its ease of winning, to a complete turnaround is just great for me I think. I wish I had spent more time learning the priciples and conceptual ideas before. It's amazing what you can do with just a little wiser approach and opening play. How does the CM compare to a real rated opponant? Thanks, and hi everyone since this is my first post. :)
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