Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:30:06 06/23/99
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On June 23, 1999 at 12:41:02, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >On June 23, 1999 at 09:56:54, Dave Gomboc wrote: >>On June 23, 1999 at 09:23:12, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>>has not helped much. >>>the score in the games i have seen in paderborn was not >>>an example of beeing more intelligent. :-)) >> >>Fritz finished in 3rd place. This was a highly competitive field, and 3rd place >>is IMO an excellent result. >> >>I didn't see CSTal there. Excuses about a $500 entry fee notwithstanding, I can >>only presume that if it had been there, it would have been crushed by programs >>like Fritz. Of course, we all know how intelligent that would have made CSTal >>look. >CSTal may score not very bad against the programs, but that was definitely not >the goal of its' programmers. The goal was to have the exciting games against >humans, and I beleive that goal was more-or-less achieved. I would add that CS-Tal plays pretty chess from what I have seen. 140 move grind-it-out draws are one of the horrible things about computer chess. You will not likely see CS-Tal play a lot of those.
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