Author: James T. Walker
Date: 11:32:25 04/18/99
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On April 18, 1999 at 13:00:22, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>On April 18, 1999 at 10:39:03, James T. Walker wrote:
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>>For anyone interested in how CSTal-2/Windows plays here is a game from ICC.
>>
>>[Event "ICC 3 0"]
>>[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
>>[Date "1999.04.18"]
>>[Round "-"]
>>[White "E-TAL"]
>>[Black "GreatPatzer"]
>>[Result "0-1"]
>>[WhiteElo "2493"]
>>[BlackElo "2243"]
>>[Opening "Nimzo-Indian: 4.e3, main line"]
>>[ECO "E59"]
>>[NIC "NI.02"]
>>[Time "11:18:11"]
>>[TimeControl "180+0"]
>>
>>1. c4 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 c5 5. Bd3 O-O 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. O-O d5 8. a3
>>Bxc3 9. bxc3 dxc4 10. Bxc4 Qe7 11. a4 e5 12. Ba3 b6 13. Bb5 Bd7 14. Bxc6
>>Bxc6 15. Nxe5 Bb7 16. Qb3 Ne4 17. Rad1 Rad8 18. h3 Qg5 19. a5 Nd2 20. Ng4
>>Nxb3 21. axb6 axb6 22. c4 h5 23. f4 Qg6 24. f5 Qg5 25. Kh1 hxg4 26. hxg4
>>Qxg4 27. d5 Qxc4 {White resigns} 0-1
>>
>>Jim Walker
>>
>>P.S. Other observations: The auto232 function does not work properly. This
>>makes playing another computer through the CSTal interface almost impossible to
>>do. It comes with only 3/4 man table bases. In my opinion it plays very "Human
>>like" (Meaning it blunders a lot).
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>CST was white in this game, I assume.
>
>To be fair, that was a 3 0 game, which is extremely fast. 19. a5 is hard to
>understand, 19. ... Nd2 in response is completely crushing.
>
>The games I've seen in the past it is pretty hard to kill, and is able to create
>attacks from not very much, but I wouldn't play 3 0 with it.
>
>bruce
Hello Bruce,
Thanks for your input. I respect your opinion about chess/computers. This may
not be a fair test for CSTal-2 but you can get a look at the rating and the way
it plays. I have tried to avoid computers on ICC because the author seems to
think CSTal-2 plays best against humans. The rating is after about 50 games
(I'm not sure). Anyway for a K6-2 350 Mhz with 256 meg Ram to only play 2500 is
pretty poor for Blitz. Don't computers have a distinct advantage at 3 0 or 5 0
say compared to G/30 or 40/2? Isn't this a pretty poor rating for a "Brand New"
program on this machine? It plays interesting chess sometimes and sometimes it
just plays bad. I did not buy the program for it's strength anyway. I wanted
it for it's interface/auto232 which is not working properly either. The manual
refers you to a web site for help but there's nothing there of any value except
an email address.
Jim Walker
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