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Subject: Re: The truth about chess programs

Author: Tony Nichols

Date: 01:40:35 04/22/05

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On April 22, 2005 at 04:23:07, Ingo Bauer wrote:

>Hello
>
>>We have seen many examples of class players drawing
>>against these programs.
>
>Especially in the fora these "players" tend to publish their draw or wins but
>usually forget to puplish their 10 (or more) lost games.
>
>E.g. I saw a row of 15 games of a recently very activ publisher here of which 14
>were lost. The last one was a win on time (256 moves and the comp did not move
>anymore...) and you should habe seen the fuzz that was going on afterwards!
>Interestingly this guy resigns immediately if a line opens, even if it was
>opened with a knight or a rook sac (contemped factor) for a pawn. In other
>words, the player was UP a rook and resigned nevertheless just because of an
>open line versus the comp.
>
>Bye
>Ingo
Well, I can think of many better things to do than continously playing speed
games against chess programs. I might change my mind if the computer insisted on
sacrificing pieces:)
Tony



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