Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 09:06:21 01/19/00
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On January 19, 2000 at 08:21:49, Graham Laight wrote: >On January 19, 2000 at 05:21:17, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>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 > >And Rebel comes where on this list? :-) 11th ommandment: you shall not provoke people to lie :-) Ed >-g
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