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Subject: Re: Is anybody still playing?!

Author: José Carlos

Date: 07:02:08 12/29/04

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On December 28, 2004 at 20:35:45, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Perhaps human-like is simply "capable of mistakes". Not only soubtil strategic
>mistakes, but the kind of tactic mishaps you can meet in real competition.
>Without those mistakes the game lose a lot of his salt and pepper. One of the
>great pleasures of a chess game is to detect a mistake and get a way to exploit
>it at full. The emotion comes also or our mistakes of that kind and not knowing
>if the other side will spot it.
>All of that disappear with current engines, exceopt crippling them miserably.
>Fdo

  Even better is when you have a bad position and try to fool your oppoent with
a bad move on purpose after a long thought. Several of those and (s)he ends up
with a headache :)

  José C.



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