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Subject: Re: To Those Frustrated with Getting Slaughtered By computer Programs!

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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