Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:02:42 12/01/99
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On December 01, 1999 at 02:04:29, robert michelena wrote:
>In particular, certain individuals who claim to be "bad" players, who can get an
>occasional draw against the computer program.
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>LOL.
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>LOL.
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>Thanks for the humorous thread!!
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>LOL.
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>Those who claim to be weak players, who can nevertheless draw or defeat
>commercial chess programs should get into fiction writing; you have some
>imagination.
>
>
>In the meantime, keep up the great humor!!!
What's 'bad'? What is 'weak'? Vague and relative terms if you ask me. I probably
don't qualify, but I definitely believe you are wrong. Opposite colored bishop
endings, rooks on the 7th giving a perpetual, repeated moves that cannot be
avoided due to a potential loss of material, even a sacrifice of a piece or two
on the opponent's king, not to win but just draw. All these are common themes I
have seen and used. None of them are subject to grandmaster knowledge, and I
have yet to see a commercial program that never fell for one of them. A little
more advanced perhaps are rook endgames where I see the program desperately try
to hold on to a 2 pawn advantage though to do so it's rook is ridiculously
passive, and it will probably lose a pawn and be unable to win. This is more
common than you would believe. These aren't even among the anti-computer
strategies outlined in other threads BTW.
Albert Silver
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