Author: Jon Dart
Date: 06:46:41 06/08/99
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On June 08, 1999 at 09:30:11, Andreas Stabel wrote: > I'm not the worlds best chess player (ANST rated 1200-1300 on FICS), but I >thought I knew something at least... > But now everything has changed. I have LOST the two last games I played >against it !!! (see PGN at the end) > This shouldn't be possible. The program plays like an idiot. It just >pushes pawns whenever possible and messes up it's king safety and the >positions looks terrible for the machine but still it WINS :( This is not so surprising. Even a 3-4 ply searcher can play at a class C or D level. Even a dumb program knows that winning material is good, and can find non-obvious ways to accomplish that. It also won't fall for really obvious traps or threats. Class C or below players (of which I am one) lose to "shallow" (1, 2 or 3 move) tactics pretty often. If you can get your tactical abilities up to the level where this isn't happening to you, then your rating (and your score against this computer) will certainly climb. --Jon
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