Author: ERIQ
Date: 11:41:46 04/25/04
Last friday at the end of our local chess club meeting, I asked life master john russell potter (fide 2270+) to play a 20-min 5-inc match against majestic chess. He really didn't want to play a mashine but after I told him it was an old w-chess engine from the 80's w/ nice graphics, he agreed. He requested that I move the peices for him because he didn't like my mouse ?? ( well what ever floats his boat), I agreed and so we began. I set it up so that he could play a custom player, that I dubbed "Dark lord", a personality I've been working on that seems alittle stronger than the default (though not enough games to conclude anything yet). Well the game started with potter having white in a sharp line in the caro kahn, an opening that is potters bread and butter, potter sacs a pawn in the line for presure on the king side but soon gets nothing in return and with thoughts of still winning he pressed on anyway and ended up resigning before move 40! There were a number of shocked onlookers to this match and even I was suprised at how easily he was dispatched. My only regret was that I did not save the game. So what started out as me just showing off this program to a mother of a chess kid who was interested in nice tutorals ended in the severe beating of a three time VA. state champion. Even worse was that majestic took less than 10mins to accomplish this feat! btw. He stated several times during the game "I hate this greedy little silicon beast" as he cluched his fist and banged on the table, while desperately trying to find a draw. ps. any guesses as to the rating of this program on a 2400+ amd laptop w/ 512mb ram.
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