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Subject: Re: Horrible and pitiful.

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 13:15:01 08/21/99

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On August 21, 1999 at 16:07:45, blass uri wrote:

>
>On August 21, 1999 at 14:05:46, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>In the latest Gamasutra (www.gamasutra.com) magazine the following uninitated
>>superstition was written:
>
><snipped>
>> Chess game AIs are perhaps
>>the one exception to this rule, but they're cheating, since most chess programs
>>draw upon databases of thousands of games and simply pick the highest-scoring
>>move available at that moment.
>
>The book is only a small part of the program.
>It is easy to get programs out of books without getting a very bad position with
>white but it is not easy to win or even to draw against them after it.
>
>Uri
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It's not easy to beat the beast even if you play an opening perfectly for 30 or
40 moves and have a small plus at the end of the opening stage, you're still
going to lose unless you are a very strong Master!

Terry



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