Author: Thom Perry
Date: 06:08:07 12/16/98
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On December 15, 1998 at 18:56:54, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi: >You asked me in an email some thoughts about CSTAL and I gladly do it here just >in case anybody else could be interested. Besides some pals here were so >disappointed with that program that offered a trade of it. >Well, this is my view about CSTAL in few words: if you are one of those amateurs >that love to play computer Vs computers and expend almost all his chess >computing time doing that, surely CSTAL is not for you. It was not programmed >for that kind of chess and so you will find it weak. But if you are like me and >purchase programs for the old, incredible absurd idea to play againts them, >CSTAl is worthy the 50 bucks it cost. Maybe is not the strongest even againts >human kind, BUT his wild play, his daring attacks, his weird moves finally >create such a pressure in the board -not in the post mortem desk where is so >easy to find refutations- that sooner or later, if you do not win the game very >quick, you will ve overwheelmed. It seems to me that the CSTAL algorythms are >not the usual maximin based in what is deemed best in opurely chessic sense, but >lines are chosen according to its degree of pressure, even if threretically they >are wrong. At last, many games are won and lost along wrong lines. Not always >you can find the refutation of a fake attack, specially if you get tired after >rejecting one after another. So Cstal keeps you over your toes and so it is an >exciting game you always can get from it. >Cheers >Fernando I enjoyed this "review" of CSTAL!
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