Author: Randall Shane
Date: 07:13:29 08/20/99
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When I first read the title of your post, I thought 'their program' signified a program that the person wrote...anyway, I'll respond to both the actual question and the question I thought it was... (Actual) Myself, I never have beaten Chessmaster 5000 without severe time asymmetry and a few takebacks -- but I'm a ~1500 player, that's to be expected. (Supposed) Well, here's a perspective from a programmer just getting into chess programming... I'm writing a program myself. It's got problems. It doesn't have an opening book yet, no endgame knowledge to speak of, a suspect position learning feature, and an occasional bug in the search (I think) that causes it to occasionally drop a piece. It's got a hybrid bitboard/array representation that looked neat when I thought it up, but is quickly proving to be slow. I'm apparently over-valuing square control and under-valuing development. It usually gets to 7-8 plies in a 1 12 game, however, and despite its many flaws, it usually (nine times out of ten) beats me. And it's not a very good program...although, admittedly, I'm not a very good player. :-) Most programmers probably can't beat their programs terribly often. (Summary) Don't worry -- most people are lousy against computers, unless you artificially handicap them -- less time, takebacks, etc.
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