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Subject: Re: GNUChess

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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