Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:05:13 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 05:52:28, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>On January 17, 2000 at 12:57:26, James A. Tackett wrote:
>
>> As a long time purchaser of many chess programs, I am most interested in the
>>playing style of the program rather than its objective strength. I would like
>>to here opinions on which comercial chess program comes closest to playing like
>>a HUMAN master.
>
>In my opinion, Junior 6. But I wonder to what extent this is subjective and not
>necessarily transferable. For example, there are people that find Genius "human
>like", while I think it's quite electronic. It would be interesting to see if
>people could identify who is the human player in human-computer games. Once I
>gave a test of this kind to Danny Kopec and he didn't do so well. Botvinnik
>thought that Tal played like a computer,
I don't think this was made comparing Tal's games to that of any computer
though. Probably due to two factors:
1) Tal didn't exactly follow the cold logic of Botvinnik's approach to chess
2) Tal could play moves that were tactically sound but incredibly strange (which
is why we love him).
He was sometimes referred to as a human calculator (in chess) when he was young
according to Dvoretsky, though this was probably more because of the depth of
some of the lines he saw than the precision and thoroughness of his vision.
According to Khalifman and the team of GMs and IMs that analyzed all his games
for that monstrous compendium of theirs (now out as a program by CA), only some
30% of his sacrifices were actually correct. Not that this detracts in any way
from the beauty and imagination of the moves that confounded the best players
(except for Korchnoi) for decades.
Albert Silver
>that sometimes I wonder about the "human
>likeness" of some Kasparov games, etc. I find this issue a bit puzzling.
>
>Enrique
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