Author: Albert Silver
Date: 14:30:44 01/07/06
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On January 07, 2006 at 16:59:49, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>On January 07, 2006 at 15:48:12, Michael Collins wrote:
>
>>I know there are quite a number of my chess playing friends who also play
>>Civilization 3 or 4. A discussion among us about which they prefer to play
>>arose and it was quite interesting. How many of you out there have played Civ 3
>>or 4 and how does it compare to chess. THanks for any responses.
>
>
>I liked Civilization 1 and 2 and then I simply stopped playing that game for
>some reason. But I like playing backgammon and go (Gnubackgammon and Many Faces
>of Go). I am rather stronger than my go program though, whilst I have to fight
>hard against Gnubackgammon and still find myself on the losing end.
That's understandable. GNU Backgammon is not only the strongest backgammon
program in the world, it is stronger than the elite players over the long run.
GO programs on the other hand have a long way to go still.
Albert
>
>Nothing like a ten game blitz match against a clever chess program that is about
>1900 ELO :-))), preferably even weaker... Turing and Bam-bam are too weak, so
>go figure which one we should use for fun.
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