Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 05:12:21 07/05/05
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On July 05, 2005 at 07:03:44, ludicrous wrote:
>I have an observation regarding the playing style of Virtual Chess 2 and the
>Genius programs. I am a elo 1900-2000 player OTB. I noticed that I get my ass
>kicked quicker when I play Virtual at 2 seconds per move or when I play Genius
>at 1 second per move, much quicker than when I play Tiger 14 or Nimzo 8 or
>Hiarcs. Does anybody feel the same way with Virtual and Genius? These two
>programs are designed to play strong even at the instant level. Even if I set
>myself 5 minutes to think, I find that it is tougher to play Virtual Chess 2 or
>Genius than other programs. Their style is so tactical that it looks like every
>move they make lays a trap of some kind. Junior 6's style on the other hand is
>more forceful. So is HIARCS's style. I can normall last 25 moves vs HIARCS or
>Tiger with a drawing score showing in their analysis, but with Virtual/Genius,
>not less than 15 moves and I feel butt-kicked already.
Hi Michael
Neither Virtual Chess 2 nor Genius are especially
strong at tactics. On the contrary, Genius is playing
a very quiet but positional sound chess. If your results
vs these two programs are worse it must be your playing
style to blame for this -:)
Kurt
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