Author: Albert Silver
Date: 10:00:51 12/05/99
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On December 05, 1999 at 12:25:21, robert michelena wrote:
>Tom,
>
>I am shocked that you would suggest that an average strength player would use a
>chess playing program to defeat a "grandmaster".
>
>This individual is obviously one of those "average strength players who can
>defeat or draw " chess playing programs.
I'll admit I chuckled, but I don't know why it is so difficult to believe the
machine is beatable. Take some opening subject to pawn storms, such as some
Sicilian lines, or King's Indian, and the programs CAN slip up. Most especially
in blitz games. I have played games where the program will gobble up a pawn,
allowing me to open up lines against it, and the attack really is quite easy to
build, then suddenly the computer is giving me loads of material to prevent some
combination that I may not even have seen (!) and of course lose. They're damn
good, I'll be the first to acknowledge it, but they are certainly not gods.
Albert Silver
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