Author: Dana Turnmire
Date: 13:28:24 10/11/03
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On October 11, 2003 at 15:56:02, Christophe Drieu wrote: >On October 11, 2003 at 15:42:27, Dana Turnmire wrote: > >>On October 11, 2003 at 15:19:58, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>There is here people like me that play the engines instead of pitting them >>>between them in eternal matches? >>>Or Am I a solitary soul? >>>What I missed and when? >>>I have pitted engines in that way, once or twice, and then I almost fell aslept. >>>Sure I am missing sth. of the utmost importance. >>>Tell me, please... >>>Fernando >>Probably most people here are such weak players they gave up playing chess >>programs in a serious game a long time ago. I started chess rather late in life >>and when I started playing in tournaments my rating went up to 1450 USCF but I >>realized I had started much too late to really accomplish much in the game >>although I still would like to get back into tournament play when I get more >>time. I mostly enjoy playing the personalities in Chessmaster 9000 but unless a >>program has such options of weakening its play it is a lesson in frustration for >>someone less than a master I would think. > >I like to play vs Chess Tiger with this position at beginning. > >[D]rn1qkb1r/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1 > >Try this ;-) That is one way of weakening its play but alas even with queen odds for the average player tactics usually prevail and in one slip up the game is over. I am rather surprised though that more programmers don't take a cue from Chessmaster and put in personalities to play against. I'm sure there is no patent on this feature and there must be some reason Chessmaster outsells all other programs by a wide margin. Chess is no fun unless there is some fun in it. Other features I would like to see. 1. An elo calculator at the click of a button. I can't find a decent one to download.
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