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Subject: Re: Stupid chess programs!!! And that goes for most of them!

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 11:19:00 12/15/99

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On December 15, 1999 at 11:44:52, Torstein Hall wrote:

>Take the following position and setup on your PC:
>
>4b3/1r4k1/p3pr2/1p1pPp2/PPpP1Pp1/2P3Pp/K6P/8 w - - 0 1
>
>Every human would play 1.a5 without thinking, but your chessprogram plays
>1.exf6+??? It may be wrong to call a program stupid but.....
>
>Torstein
>
>( So far I have only tried it on Fritz 6 and Hiarcs 7.32 )

Why would you say that Chess programs are stupid?  I'm not going to look at that
position, it doesn't even seem worth doing since as you said, you've "only tried
it on Fritz 6 and Hiarcs 7.32", that doesn't qualify for "most of them".

Pete



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