On Dec 17, 10:05 am, "chipsc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The story of GetClub repeats in a predictable fa****on.
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> "Now GetClub is much stronger and will play hard game and you will
> loose all game"
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> "Why GetClub is loosing game, please explain so I can improve GetClub"
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> "Now GetClub is much stronger and will play hard game and you will
> loose all game"
>
> etc. etc. For how long now? Perhaps a year?
True. But try actually playing the program now;
you will see a remarkable improvement in strength.
I can still recall when I would go to GetClub and
come away thinking I was Paul Morphy in every
game! All my sacrifices worked, like magic. Now
things are a lot tougher. I think if it weren't for the
slowness of the Java applet, most humans would
now be getting thumped.
A couple of times I have experienced that the
program was nearly indistinguishable from others,
apart from the tiny openings book. But then it
always goes back to sacrificing pieces for pawns,
or even for spite checks; only now the ante has
been upped to two-pawns-and-an-exposed-King;
never mind that all the King might be "exposed"
to is a short series of meaningless spite checks.
Sanny is not trying to compete with commercial
programs, so the fact that his is not upwards of
2700 is no big deal. The toughest part seems to
be getting the rules of chess down pat, and for
this I have no easy solution; those rules are both
complex and messy, and in fact the wording of
certain rules makes it *impossible* for a chess
program to follow them without human intervention.
Many months ago, people were coming here to
brag about their "easy wins", posting the game
scores and laying into Sanny; but when he then
changed the Web site so that games had to be
completed before starting anew, something odd
happened: those people dried up and blew away.
Apparently, they were "cherry-picking" their best
wins, and staying mum about the games they
were losing. Hmm... .
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