Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 11:53:52 10/22/05
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On October 21, 2005 at 18:33:26, Uri Blass wrote: >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 didn´t even knew all the rules of chess (en passant,castling)when I played my first games against it. Half a year later I was able to beat it in most games and it started to get boring. Michael > >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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