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Subject: Re: Colossus Chess - Still life in the old horse

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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