Author: Imran Hendley
Date: 19:52:41 01/05/00
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On January 05, 2000 at 22:11:00, Chessfun wrote: I didn't mean to imply that I'm really good by saying I beat it 25 times straight. GNUChess just played very weakly IMO, many times I would be up a minor piece going into the endgame. It seemed to lose a lot of material on pins especially. Maybe my style of play is just suited to beat GNUChess... I have no such luck against Crafty and other strong Winboard programs. >On January 05, 2000 at 20:15:40, Imran Hendley wrote: > >>I am wondering about the strenght of GNUChess 5.0. I don't think it has ever >>beaten me. I doubt that I'm any better than 1700, and I've played about 25 Blitz >>games from G/3minutes to G/20minutes against it on my P200MMX with 32MB of RAM. >>I seem to destroy it in every game. Is GNUChess just bad at Blitz? I see on >>various pages that its rating is estimated at somewhere between 1800 and 2200. >>Does anyone have any similar experience or ideas why this is happening? > >Although I am and have clearly advocated that IMHO average rated humans can and >do beat chess software. I can't believe that a 1700 rating can destroy GNU, >for 25 straight games between 3 - 20 minutes. I had read that GNU was around >2200 somewhere not sure exactly where. > >I was going to post this but wanted to try playing it myself first. Two years >ago OTB i had a rating in excess of 2100 I just played GNU one game of 3 minutes >result I lost a rook and 4 pawn ending on time. > >Wasn't exactly anti-computer play on my part. So if you are destroying it every >game maybe something is wrong unless in those games you have been playing anti >computer style. Ohhh BTW the computer it was running on was a P166 mmx. >Thanks.
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