Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 23:36:21 01/17/99
There has been some posting criticizing the strength of chess engines inability to play at the amateur ELO ratings, and let me ask you this, can you turn red paint into blue paint? Really, if you go to a paint store and buy red paint, you cannot expect the red paint become blue no matter how much dilluting you do to it. Red is red, and if you dillute too much it will disappear all together. The same principle applies to chess engines, if you go and buy a chess engine which plays at a GM strength, it does not matter how much tinkering you do to the program, it will either continue to play strong or too stupid to play chess like the paint scenario. If you want a chess engine to play at amateur strength than perhaps the freeware/shareware version would offer such programs, or get some of the old chess engines such as Psion Chess, Sargon II, Sargon III, Chessmaster 2000. Either that or start applying better studying techniques to improve your game. Also, can you ask a GM to play at a 1400 ELO? See the dilemma that chess programmers face, they don't know how a chess amateur thinks and how a chess amateur analyzes chess positions, so no matter what they do, they will never produce a chess engine which will play like a human amateur, and amateur chess analysis don't sell in chess publications.
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