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Subject: Re: Moving fast good against human opponents?

Author: Gareth McCaughan

Date: 11:13:19 01/12/00

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[Vincent Diepeveen:]
> But against humans moving quickly definitely is good. you get only
> in troubles against class A players and above, who usual feel the
> psychological need to directly react a lot less.
>
> but for anything under that level, i'm very sure that moving directly
> is putting psychological a lot pressure on the opponent, till they get
> used to it.

Surely any good program is going to win reliably against
sub-class-A players anyway, without needing to play
psychological games against them? And most such players
who play chess programs at all want to enjoy the
experience, not to feel that the machine beat them
by taking unfair advantage...



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