Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 08:31:48 08/20/99
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Ex-World Champion Jose Capablanca once said that in order to become a chessmaster one must loose hundreds of games. Ok, I am perhaps a bit of offline quoting Capablanca, but what he means is that we learn more from our defeats than our victories. So perhaps you surfed in the internet and found games posted by amateurs who claims victories against their top chess programs, and they certainly brag about it. I have beaten my top chess engines in tournament control times, however, I lost hundreds of games before that was possible. It becomes easier once one figures out the computer weakness and then apply the anti-computer strategy to defeat the chess engine. However, I don't get much satisfaction in defeating a chess computer because I am not interested in proving that I can defeat a chess engine, I would be more interested in using the chess engine as a sparring patner to improve my game, and besides it is by playing in OTB games against humans where one gets a chess rating. So don't be discouraged by the fact you are not able to defeat the chess engine now, in time you will learn how to do it. Above all, enjoy and have fun, it's only a game. :) Laurence On August 20, 1999 at 03:57:42, odell hall wrote: >Hi CCC > > right now I am rated 1804 uscf and out of 100 games at various time controls I >have 0 wins against my four favourite programs 1. Rebel10 2Junior5 3.Hiarcs7 4. >Fritz5.32 Although yesterday I did manage a draw against Rebel9. >Is it just me or do you have to be 2300 to get a win from computers nowdays? >I always play my programs on the strongest settings, so if I win, I can have >something to brag about.
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