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Subject: Re: m-chess pro 8

Author: Thom Perry

Date: 04:08:33 03/19/99

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On March 19, 1999 at 04:40:08, Harald Faber wrote:

>On March 19, 1999 at 04:31:57, Thom Perry wrote:
>
>>On March 18, 1999 at 23:51:55, alfred palang wrote:
>>
>>>mcp8 is an ideal human like program
>>
>>mcp8 thinks humans are ideal opponents.
>
>MCP can't think. :-)

It's strange, but as you sit there, taking your pounding from MCP, you almost
begin to feel that the program is actually "thinking" out its/your moves.  I get
as excited [translation: !@#$%^&*()+] playing MCP as I do any human opponent.

>However, did you think about it? It is because humans don't "outsearch" (by
>[deep] tactics) MCP so MCP's positional "understanding" and abilities make it so
>dangerous for humans.



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