Author: Roger
Date: 19:31:03 12/20/99
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Great post, Fernando :):) I used to go through periods where I though I would get serious about chess, and that I REALLY going to learn it this time, that I would finally put forth the necessary effort, and so on. During these periods, I believed that I needed the strongest program for analysis purposes, since I always wanted the strongest move to be recommended and the lines to be solid. But I never found any time to do any of that, and just got cut to ribbons again and again, just as you describe. That's why I've decided to cut back on the number of programs I buy, because I'll never be more than an expert and I know it (and I'm not even that now), and it really doesn't matter if I own the Fritz 6 or 5.32 or even 4. So let everyone else argue about what the strongest program is, and give me a program that can play various STYLES coherently, sometimes blockading me, sometimes crushing me tactically, cause it's really just for fun. I just wish there was a program that could choose between these styles randomly, so I didn't have to make the choice and I didn't know what kind of game was coming. ;) Roger On December 20, 1999 at 16:04:52, Fernando Villegas wrote: >From time to time we begin monday with the feeling that at last we have learned >chess, that we are not going anymore to fall in stupids traps, that something in >our minds has finally fitted in his place. Then we decide to play a tournament >to finally show those bloody machines who is the master. So we pick up three or >four of our top programs and we begin to play and in two days we discover that >at 40 in 120, 60 in five minutes, all the game in 30, with or without Fisher >time counting, with black or with whites and with a beer or not at the side of >the board we are severely mauled, crushed, humiliated and scorned. >“Well, what’s the big thing” we say, “these monster are at last 2450 as even >Hyatt say, so no a miracle they can win me, but that does not probe nothing”. >After saying that we decide to test our strength against a somewhat obsolete >crop of programs, older ones with which you think you are in conditions to >deploy your true force and genius. So you pick up Hiarcs 4, Chessmaster 4000 and >maybe Genius 1 and you play against them games at 40 in 90, 10 seconds per move, >five minutes all the business or 15 minutes the first 40 moves and you are >defeated, overwhelmed, suffocated and cuted in pieces. OK, but then you say: >“well, what’s the big deal if anyway these programs are at last 2300 and surely >I am not”. >So you open your vaults and a new crop of dusty programs see the light of the >sun, this time Chessmaster 3000, Mchess 1,XX, Rex and maybe one or two Atari >chess game that you can run in a special console you downloaded for the purpose. >Once you did so, you begin to play at 40 moves in 45 minutes, full game in 3 >minutes, 60 moves in one hour and a half and although your big talent let you >get wonderful winning positions, every one of these piece of shit get your King >in a comb of 5 ply and you are checkmated, but then you say, “Well, this is >what happens when you play inferior programs and so you never convince yourself >of really concentrate, so I must play with top programs that make me play a lot >better...” >So next monday you pick up Century, Genius 65,5 etc and....and....and... >Fernando
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