Author: blass uri
Date: 00:26:07 01/16/99
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On January 15, 1999 at 20:39:16, KarinsDad wrote: >On January 15, 1999 at 20:09:45, John Coffey wrote: > >>Ah the good old days when you could play a chess computer and >>move from level 1 up to level 2 etc. Today most programs don't >>have levels per se. In fact most just let you set the time control. >>This usually means that the program will stomp everybody under >>2000 even when you set it to 1 second per move. >> >>Frizt tries to solve this problem by setting the rating. The lowest >>rating seems to be about 1450, and when I tried to play a tournament >>game against it I got stomped. Others have had the same experience. >> >>John Coffey > >I agree. I have played on "opponents" with ratings slightly higher than my own >on CM6000 and the worse case scenario was that I was up two minor pieces and a >pawn walking into the middlegame and lost. I consistently can be winning, >usually up material, walking into the endgame on an "opponent" 100 to 200 points >higher than my rating and get crushed in a matter of minutes in the endgame >(this could be due to poor endgame technique on my part, but it doesn't seem to >happen in real tournaments). > >It doesn't matter what amount of time I set it to (usually in the G10 to G30 >range), there doesn't seem to be enough time to pull out a win, even in a >winning position. I think what happens is that the program randomly picks >anywhere from it's best to it's 8th best move. Unfortunately, in an endgame, the >8th best move still seems fairly good. I do not think that in an endgame the 8th best move still seems fairly good. I think that the endgame is a weakness of the programs. I saw games between top programs when they lost a dead draw endgames. Uri
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