Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 10:47:20 06/23/99
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On June 23, 1999 at 13:30:06, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Yes. Considering that it likes to attack speculatively, and its endgame play is sub-par, 140-move grinder draws are relatively unlikely. Dave
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