Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 05:05:58 01/18/99
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On January 18, 1999 at 02:36:21, Laurence Chen wrote: > Smart example, Laurence.- F 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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