Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:50:19 04/25/04
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On April 25, 2004 at 14:41:46, ERIQ wrote: >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. Well, you conned him good, whether you knew it or not. The engine in Majestic Chess is BASED on WChess, but was much improved by Kittinger over the years. I would estimate on your machine that it plays around 2550 USCF. Since Potter is only rated about 2250 USCF (according to the latest list), I am not at all surprised by the outcome. Please save the games if you plan to challenge him again. :-) jm
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