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Subject: Re: MChess human?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 09:23:05 06/17/99

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On June 17, 1999 at 12:08:24, James Robertson wrote:

>On June 17, 1999 at 12:06:34, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On June 17, 1999 at 12:03:14, James Robertson wrote:
>>
>>>Someone posted earlier that MChess was tuned to play against humans. Perhaps
>>>they meant MChess was tuned to play _like_ a human, making blunders in winning
>>>positions, and offering short GM draws? I think I see a pattern here. All input
>>>welcome.
>>>
>>>James
>>
>>Give me the blunder you mean.
>
>In it's game vs. Francesca, I read [here] it blundered and lost a +3 endinge....
>James

I have followed this game live and was very interested but this was no blunder,
the position was lost some moves before. It was just a misevaluation, horizon
effect or however you may call it. And AFAIK MCP was the only program having an
+3 eval before...




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