Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 15:20:26 10/05/05
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On October 05, 2005 at 16:31:12, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi all: >Looking at the posts here, today and other days, I suddenly realized that there >is not anymore the kind of posts you still could find in older days, here or in >paper magazines, the kind of articles or posts saying something like "program X >stinks". >In short, It looks like there are not bad or even mediocre programs available, >As a friend of mine say of automotive industry: "in these days every car is a >good car... car manufacture is an already dominated technology". >In older times you did find bad cars. Cars that went stray the first week after >purchasing them. Cars with all kind of weird sounds of loose parts. Engines that >overheated or overeated gass. Etc. >Same with chess engines? >Exception made of definitively lousy engines produced for going in a Cd with 123 >other programs for kids, can you say any of the engines that we know from >commercial or amateurs programers could be qualifuid as "bad"? >Is it, already, a dominatede technique? >Are overthere so well know general heuristic that, provided you work accurately, >you cannot but produce a "strong program"? >Questions... >Fernando You should've got some programs from Karpov, as he says they're just mere "toys" in the hands of a GM;-) Actually, most won't concur with Karpov, oustide the GM circle, but there is still truth in what he said about computers and why GM's hold them in contempt. Even top programs fall victim to even to me!;-) Shredder 8 on a bad day-:) McCracken,Terry - Shredder 8 [B76] Blitz:4'+2" none, 28.08.2005 64MB, Shredder8.ctg, Default 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 0-0 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.0-0-0 (Bc4) 9...Nxd4 10.Bxd4 Be6 11.Kb1 Qc7 12.h4 h5 13.Be2 (g4) 13...a6 0.24/3 11 14.g4 (Qg5) 14...Rfc8 0.87/10 24 15.gxh5 Nxh5 1.06/14 0 16.Bxg7 Kxg7 1.30/13 20 17.f4 Qa5 1.17/12 0 18.f5 Rxc3 1.15/11 3 19.fxe6 Rc5 1.22/11 1 20.b4 Qb6 2.38/11 26 21.Qd4+ Kh7 2.24/12 15 22.Bxh5 Rb5 2.05/12 9 23.Qxb6 Rxb6 2.54/14 5 24.a3 gxh5 2.43/16 3 25.exf7 Rf8 2.25/15 4 26.Rdf1 a5 2.77/15 12 27.c3 axb4 2.77/15 0 28.cxb4 Rb5 2.64/14 2 1-0 I was just testing the program and I was losing on time, so I tried to quit and it asked me if I want to store the result as 1-0 and I accepted S8's resignation:)) However, S8 had no trouble dealing with this drawn position tough for most programs! [D]3B4/1r2p3/r2p1p2/bkp1P1p1/1p1P1PPp/p1P4P/PP1K4/3B4 w - - 0 1 Terry
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