On Apr 17, 11:55 am, Sanny wrote:

Look at the opening; after White plays d3, he is
threatening to win the e-pawn for free by Nxe5-- a
simple fact which both players somehow missed.
This is about as simple as tactics can get.

Yes instead of 7.Nc3 White should have played 7.BxN PxB 8. Nxe5 and
gained the e5 Pawn.

GetClub Missed it because I have thought it to Develop its pieces
First then go for the Kill.

Piece development is good. Tactics, however,
always take first priority.


Chrisf is playing in just 10 sec/ move while easy level was taking 30
sec / move. So you can see how fast Chrisf was thinking.

My advice would be to slow down a bit, and
look at what's actually going on. You can play
"blitz" against the Beginner level.

When Chrisf can win playing in just 4-5 sec/move against Beginner why
will he take longer.

Well, so he could play a decent game. No
matter how "brilliant" the final attack might
appear, if you overlook an elementary win of
a pawn, you have to pull a cheap trick in order
to "publish" it. For instance, long time readers
of Chess Lies will note that virtually every
brilliant move by Larry Evans is shown as a
diagram, with the game score omitted (and
for good reason). One such game had GM
Sammy Reshevsky /walking all over/ Larry
Evans before throwing away an easy win;
that one reminded me of a simul game--
except that in a simul, your opponent does
not come up with a brilliant escape at the
end! You will likely never see that game
presented as an annotated "master" game,
because LE played like a duffer, but for his
final, saving move.


For myself even if I take 20 min / move I will never be able to win
the Beginner Level.

Ah, then perhaps you have made the
easiest level too tough? Nobody wants to
lose every game, to get beaten like carrots,
chopped like an onion, diced like a beet.


You need atleast 20-30 sec/ move to win against Beginner. I will never
sugest you to play Blitz against Beginner as Beginner may spoil your
Ratings.

My rating seems to be doing okay, as it
is higher than anyone else's. I think you
need to worry more over the poor folks out
there-- the ones with much lower ratings. :D


Now Higher Levels like Normal/ Easy/ have got Higher points. You get
+40 Rating points on winning Master Level. and arround +20 for winning
the Normal Level. While only +5 points for winning the Beginner Level.

So if you are a good player you may play with Higher Levels and take
your Scores to +2000 by playing just a few games.

Okay, I'll give it a try. The last few days I
got side-tracked by the April 15th deadline
for filing taxes. Now, I'm sick; I actually
slept the better part of the last two days,
alternating with blowing my runny nose a
thousand times so I could breathe.


Yes Master Level plays as good as Rybka. I played a few games with
Easy & Normal Level and I think Master plays as good as Rybka. I have
not yet tried as my Rating is low and not allowed to duel with Master
Level.

You will know when your program is as
good as Rybka, by the fact that it will win
every game. Also, everyone on this news
group will suddenly stop posting, due to
myocardial infarctions and imploding
brains. Try to be patient, and not claim
your world supremacy prematurely.


Do you think Chrisf just overlooked the Fork or he really gave the
sacrifice.

I think he was not looking at everything.
Some players just focus on what they want
to do next, while ignoring other things that
are going on. Me, I would have serious
trouble overlooking the gaffe in the opening;
that's because I try to look at what's
happening on the board.


In case Easy Level do not give knight Sacrifice was there
any chance for Easy to win the game?

White left its King exposed to a Knight sac'
on h3. If you want your program to win more,
just improve its tactics so the games will last
longer. The longer a game lasts, the more
opportunities there will be for the human to
go wrong. Let's say you got to where the
average game lasted 100 moves; I think by
that point, your program would be winning a
lot more games, due to stupid human errors.


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