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Subject: Re: Which Comercial Program Best Plays Like a HUMAN Master?

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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