From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 07:21:46 MDT
In a message dated 10/20/2002 12:57:45 AM Central Standard Time,
samantha@objectent.com writes: Ah. Now I won't feel so bad when one of the
better programs on my computer beats me. :-) The days when I could win
simply by playing carefully until the machine showed (so it seems to the
subjective human) its lack of imagination and drive are over.
Samantha,
But what am I to do -- my adult son informs me that the Chess program
on this computer can teach me to be an excellent player.
I have thought this through thoroughly. Yesterday, with my birthday
coming soon, I bought myself a heavy punching bag. Now, I can practice, get
my timing back, and assert my true superiority. LOL
Ron h.
BTW, my strongest game is Checkers. Did you ever notice that you can find
flaws in the programers game and exploit those? I once had a checker program
that I could play to a draw -- typically this was a position that repeats
over and over. The program would repeat the position a certain number of
times before making an inferior move rather than repeat again. That move to
break the repetitive cycly was invariably an inferior move.
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