Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 02:21:17 01/19/00
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On January 19, 2000 at 03:00:01, stuart taylor wrote: >On January 18, 2000 at 21:13:25, Heiko Mikala wrote: > >>Hi Stuart! >> >> >>On January 18, 2000 at 19:44:13, stuart taylor wrote: >> >>>If all what you say about m-chess pro is true, then how can it not turn >>>out to be the the strongest program? >> >>Because playing interesting, exciting, thrilling and attacking chess is not >>enough to be the strongest program of them all... >> >>If you reread this passage: >> >>>>For MChess Pro, at least 1 of every 2 games is a real thriller, mostly with >>>>furious king attacks, and most of the time these thriller games are convincing >>>>wins for MChess, where the opponent didn't have a clue of what was going on, >>>>until it's too late. Of course, sometimes these attacks fail, but then you will >>>>often see nice wins by the opponents, making the games still very enjoyable. >> >>you can see, that if "at least 1 out of 2 games is a thriller", and only "most >>of these games are wins for MChess", than approx. 1/2 of MChess games are wins >>for the opponents ;-) >> >>So I didn't say that MChess is the strongest of them all - only that in my >>opinion it plays the most interesting and most human like chess of them all. >> >>By the way, MChess is still one of the top programs, concerning playing >>strength. >> >>Greetings, >Heiko. > >If these brilliant wins are also against top computer oponents,then that is >a very great thing which I didn't know about. If the results are great >except when it is flawed, or didn't get a chance to flare up, then in some >ways and in some games it must be the strongest computer player there is. > So in that case, they already have the right idea, so why don't they >find a way of correcting its faults whilst not detracting from its strong >points? > Then it should be top shouldn't it? >O.K. CSTAL might be too speculative and hardley ever score a victory over >the top programs, since it simply isn't perfect enough. Only queer and >interesting. But MChess is basically there!-no? >S.Taylor I personally like Mchess since version 7 best (I like version 8 a bit more) concerning playing style. The second program I like is CSTAL but it is playing a kind of poker chess with you too often not accurate and that's why I put Mchess8 on top of my personal list regarding playing style. Ed
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