Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 11:30:44 12/14/98
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On December 14, 1998 at 13:24:06, James Robertson wrote: >On December 13, 1998 at 23:50:48, Laurence Chen wrote: > >>I am getting tired of hearing people making statements that their chess engine >>is the most dynamic and it plays sacrifices for the initiative. > >I have not heard one programmer EVER say their program was the most dynamicand >that it plays sacrifices for the initiative. > >>Really?! I say >>that is not always true, I believe that most of the sac which the chess engine >>performs are pseudo sacrifices and very very very few indeed are true or real >>sacrifices. I would suspect that Chess System Tal would be an exception because >>I've seen games which CST makes lots of sacrifices,it knows no fear. I have the >>following position for all of you CM 6000 supporters which claim that CM always >>create winning situations > >No one has ever claimed that CM6000 always creates winning situations. > >>and is always ready to perform a sacrifice for the >>initiative. I've seen the type of sacrifices which CM performs, most of them >are pseudo-sacrifices, > >How do you define pseudo-sacrifices?? A sacrifice that results in a forced win? >If the sacrifice is correct, then it is a forced win, or a forced swindle. > >>I've yet to see one which is a true sacrifice. So here's my >>challenge to all of you CM supporters which claim that CM always make >sacrifices for the initiative, > >I have yet to see a message in which the author claimed that CM6k always >sacrifices for the initiative. I recall one in which the author said something >along the lines of "CM6k always is saccing something or pressing very hard for >the initiative". Throughout your entire post, you put words in the mouths of us >CM6k fans. Please don't. > >>I would like you to get a copy of the book, >Modern Chess Sacrifice, by Leonid >Shamkovich, and test all the positions in >the book and tell > >[snip] > >James I don't put words in other people mouth. It is just some CM claimed that CM does that. I was just stating some one else opinion, not my own. It seems to me that some people twist my words, or make the wrong interpretation.
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