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**help bot**

wrote:
help bot schrieb:
Sanny's program is still well short of any
commercial chess program I know of, so rest at ease.

That's a bit like saying a broken kick scooter is well short of any
Ferrari.

Well it is!

Here's a challenge: there are numerous free chess programs available on
the net. Find one, which is weaker than Sanny's!

Sanny's program uses a Java applet and in order for
such a test to be fair, the other programs would need
to run in a similar environment; otherwise you can get
an apples-to-oranges comparison which reflects upon
the difference in allocated hardware resources.

BTW, I have played chess programs which were *much*
weaker than Sanny's, just not on any recent hardware.

Many of the critics here are unaware of the real strength
of the program, for they either abandon games in progress
at a whim, or else play *unrecorded* games -- hinting that
they are afraid Sanny may one day cry "wolf", and instead
of a lamb, a wolf it will truly be. Here are some facts:

a) I am indisputably* a chess genius.

b) The program has lost many games to me, *but* --
it has also had me busted countless times. This
fact can easily be verified by looking over my games
at GetClub.com.

c) Other players use fake identities; abandon games in
progress; sometimes -- on rare occasions -- actually lose.

d) The obvious conclusion is that the program can
*sometimes* play reasonably well.

-- help bot

* A recent scientific study called such claims into
serious question, when a sample of my chess games
were carefully examined under a microscope and found
to contain a multitude of "miniscule blunders". These
organisms, once thought to be quite rare, are now
recognized to infest even the games of the greatest
players; for instance, "the immortal game", "the
greatest game ever played", and so forth. Up 'till
now, the common practice has been a heavy coat of
whitewash, mixed with denial. But some critics say
these only mask the symptoms, instead of treating
the disease. (Any ideas on how to eradicate these
annoying critics?)