Author: Leen Ammeraal
Date: 13:46:23 12/26/05
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I forgot to add a psychological warning for human opponents of Queen in my other messages, and I might as well put it here: If you reduce Queen's strength by allowing her very little thinking time, you should not be tempted to take her example, but rather take your time for the next move. Just do as if you are playing against a grandmaster who plays simultaneously against 100 weaker players of which you are one, so that your everage thinking time for each move is 100 times as long as his. Then we as weaker players would not be so stupid as to make our moves very quickly. Yet this is exactly what we as humans tend to do when playing against a computer that takes little thinking time. (Of course, if your rating is above 2000 elo, you can try to move somewhat quicker than most chess players can afford to do.) Leen On December 26, 2005 at 15:02:57, James Conda wrote: >On December 26, 2005 at 06:25:25, Leen Ammeraal wrote: > >>You may try Queen (http://home.planet.nl/~ammeraal/) >>and set the computer's thinking time very low, say, 1s per move. >>If desired, you can then increase Queen's strength simply >>by increasing the thinking time (using Options | Time control...). >>The user's thinking time is unlimited. >>Leen Ammeraal > > > Leen, > Thank you very much.A nice program.Much appreciated. >> >> > >> >>On December 26, 2005 at 05:48:58, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote: >> >>>As an 1800 or so player, I would really like a program to play at a consistent >>>1800 level against me, in a way that an 1800 human would play. Fritz does not >>>seem to be so good at this. If you set it to play at 1800, it will play like a >>>1200 drunk until you start winning and then will play like a 2700 gm. >>> >>>What program would you folks recommend as a training partner? How is hiarcs? ( i >>>am looking for an excuse to buy , given hiarcs looks almost as strong as fritz >>>9) >>> >>>The key features are: >>> >>>It plays consistently at a certain level >>>Its moves and mistakes are like what you would see from an 1800 (or whatever >>>rated) human >>> >>>best >>>Joseph
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