Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 15:10:24 01/27/99
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On January 26, 1999 at 18:30:52, Marc van Hal wrote: >If you say that chessmaster is a program on Grandmaster level then give me the >answer on how he plays sicilian and Kingsindian the most important square for >White is e5 normaly White tries to ocupie this square with f4 if white is out of >book chessmaster never will play this move an other bad move is in the >kingsindian is after 1d4,knf6 2c4,g6 3knc3 Bg7 4e4 d6, 5Knf3,0-0 8Be3 wich is >not best but playeable ..kng4 9Bg5 wich is already not in book but it is one of >the oldest lines of this variation 9..f6 10.Bh4,Knc6 11.d5,Kne7 12.h3?! better >is knight d2 12..Knh6 13.0-0?! better is g4 13..g5 some other programs playf5 >here wich is not as good after 14.Knd2!,ftakes e4 a human wouldnt play this >move this is a strategical blunder d2 takes e4 with good play for Withe >14.Biscopg3,Knightf7 black is already equal if not he is standing better so no >GM Well I did give this critics because it is made for a tuturial and mostely Chessmaster is a hunting program but if you see a program like Rebel10 it plays more like a human would do a Chess game is not only a tactical blow I know that positional play is of much more importance then only a tactical blow and that Chessmaster preforms good to normal IM's is because they dont see the positional mistakes Chessmaster makes and it only trys to block your plans and not looking on plans for it's one but it was ment to make the developer of the program think about these iseus the way Chessmaster plays the kings indian is not changed from the time that Chessmaster 2100 was made and Chessmaster would preform much better if was looked at these iseus and also people could learn more from these games then know also Kasparov did get much kritisme over him from the top Grandmasters from his coming time this only helps also the end gameknowledge is far from Gm level so you may love the way Chessmaster plays when Chessmaster 5000 came out I was satesfied only not about the way it played Sicilian and Kingsindian and if you want to believe it plays good now it only will play better if it has this is changed Like a famous grandmaster said pawns are the soul of chess
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