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Subject: Re: Does anyone Beat their Program or am I just lousy against computers?

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 11:01:36 08/20/99

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Hi odell:
To be defeated by top programs is just a matter of sheer necesity: they are at
least IM force in any kind of game and probably GM in blitz. And you and me and
probably all around this place are at most expert or just Fide master players.
So we MUST be defeated 80, 90, maybe 99% of times. I never play a game with the
idea that i must win, but with the idea to hold the game as much as possible and
be defeated because a tiny mistake in a technical endgame. That goal sometimes I
get, other times I fall  in an opening mistake and I am trounced very fast. And
sometimes when my brain is in a specially less stupid satet I get a draw and
jump all over the house proclaming I am a genius. Nevertheless, i enjoy the
challenge the same, with draws or loses and almost never winning. We are just
human beings and no matter how much "above the average" in intellect we could be
as someone here said, we are human nevertheles, we get tired, we think we are
better in the game than actually we are, the telephone rings, your wife shout at
you that the dinner is  in the table, come on idiot, kids comes and ask you how
to solve a math problem, the postman knocks the door,  a friend call you because
he want to chat and even sometimes you must do some work to pay the bills, so in
fact we give too many advantages o those monsters...   :-)
Fernando



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