Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:00:00 12/02/99
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The claim that 'average' or 'weak' players could never win or draw against a
commercial program is a new one, and inaccurate IMO.
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. Studying and learning
the resources available should help you achieve your goal.
Albert Silver
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