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Old October 14th 06, 12:15 PM posted to rec.games.chess.analysis,rec.games.chess.misc,rec.games.chess.computer
Bjoern
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Default Play a game, then Say about Ratings.

Sanny wrote:
RECENTLY the Game has been improved and its ratings will be very good.

Play a game: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html

Now it plays in Time it Shows

Beginner Level: 10-20 Seconds/move (1600)
Easy Level: 20-30 Seconds/move (1700)
Normal Level: 40-50 Seconds/move. (1800)

Play 3 games with Each level and you will see the difference. Now it is
playing very good moves.

Start new game: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html

The improvements were Made Today Only, So you need to play a game
before giving rating.


http://www.getclub.com/playgame.php?...009&game=Chess

Strategically most 1400 rated humans tend to play better than the
program did in this game. Not only did its king end up being stuck in
the centre, it also ended up with a destroyed pawn structure and
inactive pieces. The first six moves were okay, but afterwards it just
didn't make any move that I thought was particularly good (okay, it did
make a couple of those moves that you obviously have to make, but it
never found any active or tactical ideas and kept on losing pieces).

The game speed was nearly acceptable (but I do have a very fast
computer, so it is probably still pretty slow with anyone with less than
3GHz or so).

A couple of suggestions on how to improve the enjoyment of the game for
the users:
* let the program resign when its position is totally hopeless (e.g.
when it's down by a queen and some other pieces), it was annoyingly slow
in making its moves at that stage
* get rid of the sound effects
* stop that user profile page from popping up all the time
* offer a pgn version of played games (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pgn and
http://www.very-best.de/pgn-spec.htm if you don't know what that is)
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