Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 22:52:43 09/20/03
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On September 20, 2003 at 21:15:33, Charles Milton Ling wrote:
>Greetings!
>
>I have recently acquired this program for my Palm, and have enjoyed playing
>against it at shorter time controls whenever I had to wait somewhere. I found
>that I have to take it VERY seriously whenever I play games with a time control.
>
>However, it also has a "trainer" function. The levels extend from 1 - 8. The
>weaker levels are not interesting, but what I found amazing is that in two games
>I played at levels 6 and 7, the program decided to throw away a Knight for no
>reason at all. And mind you, this was after at least 2 minutes of "thought.
>
>I append the games:
>
>CML - Chess Tiger
>2003.09.19 21:20 Level 6, 19.09.2003
>
>1.e4 c6 2.c4 Sf6 3.Sc3 d6 4.g3 g6 5.Lg2 Lg4 6.f3 Le6 7.b3 Lg7 8.d4 Da5 9.Sge2
>0-0 10.0-0 Sfd7 11.Le3 Se5 12.dxe5 Lxc4 13.bxc4 dxe5 14.Db3 Sd7 15.Dxb7 Sc5
>16.Dxc6 Tac8 17.Db5 Dxb5 18.cxb5 Tfd8 19.Tfd1 Txd1+ 20.Txd1 e6 21.a4 Lf6 22.Kf2
>Kf8 23.a5 Ke7 24.b6 axb6 25.axb6 Kf8 26.Lxc5+ Le7 27.Lxe7+ Kxe7 28.b7 Tb8 29.Tb1
>Kd6 30.Sb5+ Kd7 31.Sa7 f6 32.Sc3 Kc7 33.Sa4 Txb7 34.Txb7+ Kxb7 35.Sb5 Kc6
>36.Sbc3 h6 37.Ke3 Kd6 38.Lf1 f5 39.Kd3 Kd7 40.Kc4 Kd6 41.Sb5+ Ke7 42.Kc5 fxe4
>43.fxe4 Kd7 44.h4 Ke7 45.Sb6 h5 46.Lc4 Kf6 47.Kd6 g5 48.Sd7+ Kf7 49.Lxe6+ Kg7
>50.Ke7 gxh4 51.gxh4 Kg6 52.Lf5+ Kg7 53.Sd6 Kg8 54.Kf6 Kh8 55.Lg6 Kg8 56.Lf7+ Kh8
>57.Sxe5 Kh7 58.Lg6+ Kg8 59.Lf7+ Kh7 60.Sf3 Kh6 61.Se8 Kh7 62.Lg6+ Kh6 63.Lf7 Kh7
>64.Sg5+ Kh6 65.Lxh5 Kxh5 66.Sg7+ Kxh4 67.e5 Kg3 68.e6 Kf2 69.e7 Ke3 70.e8D+ Kd3
>71.De4+ Kc3 72.S7e6 Kb2 73.Dd3 Ka2 74.Db5 Ka1 75.Sd4 Ka2 76.Db3+ Ka1 77.Sc2# 1-0
>
>
>11. ... Ne5??
>
>
>Chess Tiger - CML
>2003.09.19 23:47 Level 7, 19.09.2003
>
>1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Sc3 Sf6 4.Lg5 dxe4 5.Sxe4 Sbd7 6.c3 Le7 7.Sg3 c5 8.Lb5 cxd4
>9.Dxd4 a6 10.Ld3 Sc5 11.Lc2 Dxd4 12.cxd4 Scd7 13.Sf3 h6 14.Ld2 Sb6 15.h3 Ld7
>16.Se5 0-0 17.La5 Sbd5 18.Lb3 Lb5 19.a4 Le8 20.0-0 b5 21.Se4 Sxe4 22.f3 Sef6
>23.Tfe1 bxa4 24.Lxa4 Lxa4 25.Txa4 Tab8 26.Te2 Tb3 27.Sc4 Lb4 28.Tc2 Tc8 29.Sd2
>Txc2 30.Sxb3 Txb2 31.Lxb4 Txb3 32.Ld6 Tb6 33.Le5 Sd7 34.Lg3 Sc3 35.Ta5 Se2+
>36.Kh2 Sxg3 37.Kxg3 Td6 38.f4 Sf6 39.Ta4 Tb6 40.f5 exf5 41.Kf4 g6 42.Ta3 Sd7
>43.Ke3 Kg7 44.h4 Kf6 45.Ta5 Sb8 46.d5 Ke5 47.h5 Tb5 48.Ta3 f4+ 49.Kf3 g5 50.d6
>Kxd6 51.Td3+ Td5 52.Tb3 Sc6 53.Tb6 a5 54.Kf2 a4 55.Tb2 a3 56.Ta2 Ta5 57.Td2+ Ke5
>58.Te2+ Kf5 59.Ta2 Sb4 60.Ta1 a2 61.Kg1 Sc2 62.Td1 a1D 63.Txa1 Txa1+ 64.Kf2 Sd4
>65.g3 Ke4 66.Kg2 f3+ 67.Kf2 Ta2+ 68.Kf1 Ke3 69.Kg1 Se2+ 70.Kh2 Sf4+ 71.Kh1 f2
>72.gxf4 f1D# 0-1
>
>21. Ne4??
>
>(The rest of the games is uninteresting, unless you are interested in bad human
>technique.)
>
>I really wonder what caused/causes this.
>
>All best,
>Charley
The trainer levels are really "human-like". That includes throwing a piece from
time to time, exactly like a real human player when a beautiful woman walks thru
the tournament hall.
Maybe it happens too often, but in general people are very happy with these
trainer levels, so I really don't know if I should make them stronger...
Christophe
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