Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:33:26 10/21/05
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On October 21, 2005 at 17:52:22, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On October 21, 2005 at 07:43:29, bryan whitby wrote: > >>The other week, I had contact with Martin Bryant author of Colossus Chess. >>Martin doesn’t live too far away from me so it was good to hear that he hasn’t >>abandoned chess altogether. >>He still programs in his very limited spare time and has actually got a Pocket >>PC GUI about 80% finished plus he’s working on a UCI chess engine at the moment. > >Would be great to have a ColossusChess for the Pocket PC. It will probably >always remain the program I have beaten most often in my life. Think I have >beaten it at least 200 times as a 14/15 year old beginner back in 1986 on C64 >before I attended a chess club. > >Michael I doubt if the word beginner is correct for you at that time. I think that everyone who can beat strong human chess players from the following position with white is not a beginner. My guess is that most humans who play their first game in their life or their second game in their life cannot do it. [D]1nb1kbn1/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQ - 0 1 When I was a child(6-7 years old) and learned chess from my father I lost few games against my father when I had the white pieces before winning and I also know based on experince that there are adults that I can beat with black from this position. Uri
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