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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