Author: Terry Presgrove
Date: 15:00:44 04/20/99
Go up one level in this thread
On April 20, 1999 at 12:08:20, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >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. I've been playing chess for more than 25 years. Although certainly no expert I'm not a beginner either. I played for sometime on ICC averaging around 1800 in standard matches. Many years ago I purchased the applied concepts computer which had the Boris 2.5 module. Always upgrading ending up with the Stenitz module before they went out of business. Later I purchased a Fedelity Challenger 9. I was always able to more than hold my own with these machines. I quit playing for about 5 years bought a computer and Rebel9 and proceeded to discover that I had been left in the dust bend of history. Always before I was able to through hard work and good mental discipline create a plan and finally acheive it. But after many many games against rebel9 and now Rebel10 I have yet to win a legitament standard control game against these electronic monsters! While I have managed a few blitz victories they were always gimmical anti-computer techniques that I have learned watching my crafty program play on ICC. For more than a year now I have suffered humiliating defeat continuosly. Perhaps one draw and that questonable. There were games that I was dead even after 40 moves but I always seem to find a wasy to loose in a pawn down ending. My point is that those of us in the 1600-1800 uscf range have almost no chance to defeat these technological monsters and I like the idea of using a data base of near equal players to create an opening book and compete against an opponet (in this case Rebel-freeware) which if I play well can be beaten. I have come to the conclusion that for me to defeat Rebel9/10 would be like sinking a battleship with a BB gun.
This page took 0.02 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.