Author: Ralph E. Carter
Date: 16:07:33 08/25/99
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On August 24, 1999 at 18:19:15, odell hall wrote: >Hi CCC > > Here is my list of the top programs and How they remind me of Certain great >Human Masters of the Past. > > > 1. Rebel10 - I cannot resist the temptation to compare this programs Playing >style with fischer, It has a great grasp of positional play mixed with a nice >touch of tactical wizardly. A mixture of capablanca and alekhine which >chracterized fischers play. > > 2. Chessmaster 6000- Anyone that has expierence with CM will no doubt agree >that the only Human grandmaster to compare it to is none other than the Great >Mikhail Tal!!!. It is simply astouding to watch chessmaster brilliancies, one >can expect atleast 2 brilliant game out of five when chessmaster plays. Actually >it is quite surprising the things that chessmasters can come up with during a >chess game. Like tal CM never fails to entertain. > > 3. Fritz5.32- This Program reminds me of Lasker it often plays lousy in the >opening and gets losing positions only to miraculously come back and win the >game! Ofcourse it's endgame is no where near the strength of Lasker, but it >seems to possess the Solid Defensive capabilites that Lasker was known for. > > > 4. Genius5- Genius plays alot like capablanca and Karpov, extremely boring >chess! It will not attack >, and sits back and waits for it's opponent to make a >mistake, THEN it attacks. I respect this chess-philosophically. >not very exciting to watch. But has a very strong endgame and will >grind down it's opponents, or simply put it's opponents to sleep with it's >boring play. Hey! This is the way _I_ play! I don't think it is boring. I studied Fischer and Karpov a great deal. The Richard Lang programs in Mondial, Berlin, and Genius 2 reminded me distinctly of Karpov. I enjoyed knowing that if I made NO tactical error, I could play interesting games with a vastly superior opponent. It seemed to me at the time that they defeated me LIKE Karpov would (if he respected my play). I don't enjoy JUST being tactically shredded. Any of the FREE engines can do that! Perhaps other programs know more about attacking, but Genius is interesting too. (My rating is 1803 USCF.) > > > 5. Junior5 I have not played to many games against Junior, But so far I >would say that it Plays sort of like David Bronstein, A tactical Genius with a >very fine postional grasp. Junior has a romantic style of play, it always steers >it's opponents into wild tactical positions (atleast it is true for me). > > > > >Ofcourse I realize that all these players I mention are far Stronger than the >programs I have mentioned, but in my humble opinion these programs often >manifest the sytles of the above Great Human masters!.
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