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| Aug-15-04 | | Calchexas: d00d, linux is unstoppable!!! |
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| Aug-16-04 | | Kaspy2: I feel this player should be represented in this database with his game where he played a mate in 45 straight away, once he found it. |
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| Aug-28-04 | | Lawrence: <Hydra> beat <Shredder> 5.5-2.5, just goes to show that 16 processors are better than 4. Of course, Hydra is not your $40 engine on a CD, playable on any PC. |
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| Sep-07-04 | | Knight13: Some one said that the computer is Deep Blue. Is it true? |
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| Oct-17-04 | | Calchexas: <Knight13> It is in the '96 Kasparov games, I think. |
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| Nov-05-04 | | rayzor: Programs are tactical wizards, but are still highly vulnerable in certain types of positions. I recently beat a top program twice in three games, in a manner similar to Kasparov's game 3 against X3D Fritz.
(Both games were KID Samish variations with a locked center, where the program failed to obtain counterplay with g5-g4). With an appropriate opening book to force tense, dynamic positions, the programs are monsters. Without that guidance, they can still play like children. (Of course, it can also be said that the best humans sometimes play like patzers in tactically complex positions -- where programs laugh at their incompetence). |
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| Jun-30-05 | | nikolaas: Okay I don't believe in computers anymore. Here's my discussion with intellibuddy: >Intellibuddy: Hi, I'm Intellibuddy! Nice to meet you.
>Me: Hi there.
>Intellibuddy: Hello undefined
>Me: Do you want to play chess?
>Intellibuddy: I don't like chess that much. How about another game?
>Me: You don't like chess?
>Intellibuddy: Do you like chess ? Chess isn't really my game. Try another robot.
>Me: Chess is the max! There's nothing like chess!
>Intellibuddy: When is Chess not the max? Surely something like chess chess. What crap! That thing doesn't like chess! Bad AI I presume? |
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| Jan-03-06 | | blingice: 1. Why doesn't this have a title, like Deep Blue, X3D Fritz, etc. and 2. Why doesn't the player list on <CG> not include computers? |
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| Jan-22-06 | | melianis: <blingice> 1. the computer program used is not specified in the score 2. In fact it does, at least Hydra is included there, other computer and årogram names can be obtained by typing computer in the player search box. |
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| Mar-25-06 | | LoFarkas: Bourn81: Will you please download Fruit from the net and install it on a decent computer? It is free. Let the comp be 2 GHz, 512MB RAM at least. Play it and report. http://www.uciengines.de/UCI-Engine... You can also give zappa and rybka a shot if you like... |
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| Mar-25-06 | | LoFarkas: Actually, Chessmaster, Fritz, Junior, Hiarcs, Rybka, Fruit, Zappa, Shredder and a dozen more angines can butcher 99.99% of mankind in chess, run on a decent but not extraordinary PC. The best of these engines would give the very best super GMs a very serious run for their money.
In about a year's time, no human GM will have any chance at all of defeting the best engine run on the best commercially available standard PC. P.s: The programme you linked is trash. Even I, a complete patzer can beat the living **** out of it in 20 moves. There are several hundred chess programmes, and the difference between their strength is monumental. |
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| Jul-25-06 | | RonB52734: Another chapter in the sad saga of Microsoft Chess, also known as Ziggurat or, as I have come to call it, Deep Patzer. I have recently moved, and haven't yet found where I packed the Chessmaster CD-ROM. So I sat down last night to play through some endings from Fine's book with Deep Patzer as my opponent. I got to a position something like this (Black to play): 
click for larger viewWhereupon Deep Patzer moved into check with ...Ka7 and declared the game a stalemate! So I got up and spent the rest of the evening searching for my Chessgames CD. Incidentally, I was trying to understand how to accomplish the K+Q checkmate in the fewest number of moves. (Fine says the maximum number required from any position on the board is like 8 or 9. I had reached the above position in 8 or 9 moves and you can see that mate is still 1 (if ...Kc8) or 2 (if ...Ka8) moves away.) The starting position from the book is (White to move): 
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| Aug-18-06 | | psmith: Cross posted from the Rybka forum:
Here is the beginning of a game I played against the Slow Chess engine on my laptop. I was White. 1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e5 d4 4. Nce2 Ng4 5. f4 Nc6 6. Nf3 e6 7. h3 Nh6 8. d3 Nf5 9. g4 Nh4 10. Neg1 Qd5 Now I played 11. Nxh4 and after 11... Qxh1 12. Nhf3 h5 13. g5 f6 14. Qe2 fxg5 15. Bg2 Qxg1+ 16. Nxg1 gxf4 17. Bxf4 went on to win many moves later. Neither Slow Chess nor Fritz 5.32 seems to be able to see that 11. Nxh4 is winning. What does Rybka think? (or any more advanced engine?) |
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| Sep-01-06 | | madkerrui: Hi
I have recently rediscovered my interest in chess and have become a premium member on you incredible site. I have a Kasparov chess companion 111 which I have had over 20 years. It is working great but I can not remember how to use the set up facility. I have tried every which way. Do you know anyone who can help?
regards Peter |
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| Sep-01-06 | | Chess Classics: <Whereupon Deep Patzer moved into check with ...Ka7 and declared the game a stalemate!> LOL! <madkerrui> I have no idea. That machine is older than me =) Regards,
CC |
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| Sep-02-06 | | madkerrui: Nice one CC, however my maths was wrong I have actually had the computer since 1993 so it is probably younger than you? |
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| Sep-02-06 | | Caissanist: <psmith> I gave your game to Crafty and it did find 11.Nxh4 after a couple of minutes, although it thinks that this leads to only a minimal advantage for white: depth=14 1/25 +0.65 11. Nxh4 Qxh1 12. Nhf3 h5 13. Kf2 hxg4 14. Bg2 Qxg2+ 15. Kxg2 gxf3+ 16. Nxf3 Bc5 17. Bd2 O-O 18. Qg1
Nodes: 101110219 NPS: 473517
Time: 00:03:33.53 |
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| Feb-16-08 | | Whitehat1963: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas...
File under either:
Great News!
or
Signs of the Apocalypse
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| Jul-13-08 | | myschkin: "How Your Chess Program Defeats You"
Part 1: http://latestchess.com/showArticle....
Part 2: http://latestchess.com/showArticle.... |
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| Jul-16-08 | | myschkin: "Ancestors"
http://www.angelfire.com/games/SBCh...
http://www.geocities.com/siliconval... |
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| Jul-16-08 | | hms123: <myschkin> <"How your chess program deats you"> Thanks--great explanation. |
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| Jul-16-08 | | myschkin: <123> You're welcome :) |
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| Jul-18-08 | | myschkin: How to beat your computer (Anno 1997)
http://chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk/Chess/Tr... |
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| Aug-27-08 | | myschkin: . . .
“Torres y Quevedo’s rook endgame automaton” 1911/12
The world’s first analogue chess computer, invented prior to the advent of digital technology, was capable of solving King + Rook vs. King endgames beginning in any position. The machine did not always mate in the minimum number of moves, but it did always finish the job. http://nathanbauman.com/seoulhero/n... |
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