Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 20:47:10 02/19/99
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Bruce: I'm anxiously awaiting for you to make Ferret commercial. I own a lot of programs, and really can't afford more, but I plan to make a special effort to find the money to purchase yours, when it becomes available. In the meantime, can I play two 30 minute games against it on the ICC. True, I know I will get crushed, but it would be fun:) mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! On February 19, 1999 at 17:32:19, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On February 18, 1999 at 19:43:11, Reynolds Takata wrote: > >>Please describe your pleasure and your feeling about the match if possible? > >I'm proud of my program because it played well and won in front of about 150 >people. > >It is nerve-wracking to do these because there is the fear that the program will >do something ugly and lose in embarassing fashion. I would feel confident >playing a longer blitz match against anyone, because I know that in at least >some of the games it will demonstrate strength, but in a pair of 30 0's there is >the chance that it will look stupid in both games, and people will extrapolate >from this, they'll think that my program always plays like this, and they'll >think it forever. > >I'm still often reminded of the 0-2 match against Shirov a couple of years ago. > >I take some of the worry out of it by removing all question about whether I >should accept any particular offer, I simply accept every match of this type >that I am offered, and simply tell the thing to play 1. e4 and hope for the >best. > >bruce
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