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Subject: Re: Chess Genius 5 ! Not at the top, but one hell of a program!!!

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 07:03:17 06/23/99

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I agree. I don't know if it is a "genius," but it rarely does
anything really dumb. It seems less prone than other programs
to make "computer" moves that are really bad from a human's
judgement. It also does not tend to go for speculative attacks,
a la Fritz.

--Jon

On June 22, 1999 at 22:26:19, odell hall wrote:

>Hi CCC
>
>
>  I don't know about anyone else here, But I think Genius 5 plays a very great
>game of chess. I like it's  good positional approach, one learns from the
>program when you play it.  I really think it's surprising that it is not a the
>top, it has  such a rock solid style. I think the reason it is not at the top
>because it tends to be a draw master, and will accept a draw instead of going
>for the win. Perhaps this accounts for it's low rating, relatively speaking that
>is.



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