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Subject: Re: About the Sense -or non sense- of Stonewalling to Survive a Computer

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 04:18:09 07/16/05

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On July 16, 2005 at 03:50:13, Madhavan wrote:

>On July 16, 2005 at 01:20:47, Dan Honeycutt wrote:
>
>>Hi Fernando
>>
>>Up to about Sargon II, I could beat the engines.  So I played like you.  Sargon
>>was not bad tactically, but played a pitiful endgame.  I played right into its
>>strengths and avoided exploiting its weaknesses.
>
>Sargon is the old OLD DOS progam right?Is it available for download somewhere?

Right.  I don't know of any place where you can download it.

>
>>Now it's different.  If an engine somehow manages to screw up the opening bad
>>enough to lose to me, it better never play that line again.  If it does, it is
>>going to lose the exact same game.  I show them no mercy.
>
>hmmm.what rating do you estimate?
>

Who?  Me, Sargon, or some other engine that I beat once in a blue moon?

>>Best
>>Dan H.



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