Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 09:08:20 04/20/99
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On April 20, 1999 at 11:48:50, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Odell: >There is another way to cope with frustration that I recomend here after many >time probing it: just forget the idea you can win and concentrate in giving the >hardest and toughest game as possible to the machine. I play these monster as I >would play a GM in a tournament: trying to do my best to compell the GM to do >near his best to defeate me. So frustration is avoided and even a kind of >satisfaction arrives if you are defeated but only after 50 moves in a technical, >hard ending. And you learn a lot. And sometimes even you play over your head and >get a draw... >Fernando Sometimes I am not happy with my old and slow machine; but from that perspective it has a positive side: I can beat my engines from time to time without crippling them, so there is no frustration for me anymay (: I think it requires discipline to play the machine at its best, and losing one game after another can be discouraging. It does not discourage me now, but I think it could when I was a beginner. José.
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