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Subject: Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 19:41:53 03/06/02

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On March 06, 2002 at 22:25:50, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On March 06, 2002 at 19:20:34, Rich Van Gaasbeck wrote:
>
>>
>>>A 4 plies search on this kind of computer would take a really long time by
>>>todays standards (more than one minute IIRC).
>>>
>>>At level one I guess all it can do is 1 or 2 plies.
>>
>>I think I used to play most games a level 2.  It didn't seem to miss many
>>two-move tactics, but maybe I made a lot that it never took advantage of and I
>>never new I allowed.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>I also believe the Chess Challenger 7 and Chess Challenger 10 were using a
>>>selective search, but it was prone to many kinds of errors.
>>>
>>>But at that time they were great machines. I remember playing many games (I
>>>still have the games scores somewhere here) circa 1980 against the Chess
>>>Challenger 10 (it was not mine), and it has been with the Boris computers and
>>>the Sargon II program on TRS-80 the begining of my passion for computer chess.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>I'll never be a grandmaster, I may never be a master, but someday, I'll crush my
>>CC7 like a bug :-).  Kasparov has Karpov, I have CC7.
>
>
>
>Between you and me, I'm not sure I could crush the CC7 like a bug even at level
>3... :)
>
>Knowing that Tiger could is enough for me! :)
>
>
>
>    Christophe

I am sure you can if you decide that it is your target and learn to be better on
tactics.

I believe that almost every human  can become a master
if (s)he learns chess when the most important part is to learn to be better in
tactics.

I never trained seriously in the way that was suggested here on tactics and
inspite of it and inspite of the fact that I have not good memory to play
blindfold games I have a stable rating that is close to 2000.

Uri



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