On Apr 9, 3:55 am, Sanny <softta...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I do not like the idea of Playing with Riik odds. Why not you play
> with Normal & Master Level without use of Computer. Lets see how you
> score against the Normal/ Master Level.
Those levels have very low ratings; I prefer to
play the best. ;>D
> I feel it would be much difficult to win them as they now play much
> good game.
It takes me all night to play a single game
against one of the top levels, and if I draw it
gets scored as a loss for me. The only way
I know to win against, say, the Advance
level, is to hide behind a wall of locked
center pawns, waiting for stupid mistakes.
But against the Beginner level, I can have
fun and gain rating points at the same time!
Maybe *you* should play the higher levels,
to get the ratings more in line with reality.
Seriously, my notebook's cooling fan
cranks at top speed all night long when I
play the higher levels, and every disconnect
means I have to reconnect and let the
program think another hour to get back to
where I was. I know the quality of play will
go down the toilet when we reach the
endgame, so I tend to trade down to
drawable positions-- a bad habit to get into.
I will play the top levels once in a while, it
you *truly* believe there is some fantastic
"improvement" which makes me lose like
a carrot. But 99.9% of those comments
amount to nothing but hot air-- say, do you
know a player named nearly-IMnes? ;>D
I did not play at QN-odds to ridicule the
GetClub program. As I said, the program
held its piece advantage for a while, and
where it lost the piece back there were
immense complications. I also played
out your game against Ivan from the lost
position after ...Bh4+, just to see if a top
chess engine could salvage something.
It turned out that Fritz 5.32 only drew the
"easy win"! Going back in time, we know
that the Fritz 5.32 engine was considered
to be grandmaster strength; but today's
best engines are so strong that even a
"weak GM" cannot stand the heat. Even
so, I recently discovered a *simple* chess
position where the top programs don't have
a clue-- unless they are connected to the
endgame table-bases, that is.
The reason for these odds games is to
display the "miracles" such programs can
often pull off, as well as to highlight the
immense differences in strength even at
such high levels where both programs
might crush 95%+ of human opponents.
-- help bot
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