Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 08:53:36 09/14/99
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On September 14, 1999 at 09:54:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: >I don't think he (or I) took this as an "attack". We _did_ take it as a state- >ment that is very difficult to swallow. Remember, Bruce and I have _both_ >watched our programs play a tremendous number of games on the various chess >servers. And against GM players that are in the top 10 in the world we don't >see an excessive number of draws in blitz time controls. A couple of IMs have >given up on winning pretty much, and specifically play for draws, trying to >trade queens and pieces to reach drawable endgames. And they have _very_ poor >luck in drawing (todays programs are _not_ lousy endgame players, just ask _any_ >IM/GM on the servers...) I don't even know that these guys are wrong. I've had people ask to do specific little challenge matches and had them be successful eventually. Nudnick asked to do some tests with the Mercilous attack and he scored a point after a few games I think. I figure that my program is different enough that if they think they have a strategy that works against all computers, it probably does if it works against mine, and I don't mind seeing what the strategy is and/or helping out with the test or whatever. bruce
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