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Article #6154GNUCHESS
From: Peter Stein
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 1990 22:25
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 1990 22:25
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My apologies to the net for my "easy mode" posting. I have since
recovered the pertinent documentation.
Some new observations:
1. "book" is not enabled on successive games unless the program is
exited and started up again. I tried various combinations of
commands to no avail. What always happens is:
1. e2e4 g8f6
2. e4e5 f6e4 ??? and loses the knight in a few after
3. d2d4.
2. Yes, I've seen the comments regarding pawn promotion, but I can't
even promote to a Queen!!
3. I've tried using "edit" to handle the pawn promotions, but it seems
there is no way to delete individual pieces. Do I have to use "#"
to delete the entire board and then enter all the pieces??
4. So far I've conducted two games between CM 2100 and GNUCHESS. At
30 seconds a move GNUCHESS won rather handily, CM dropping a piece
after 17 moves. At 1 minute a move the game fizzled into a dead
drawn position in 52 moves. Both claimed a draw by repetition!
This game started as a sharp double king pawn opening with both
programs offering their queen pawn for initiative. Suddenly the
game degenerated into "brownian motion" as both programs became
eager to eliminate material and shuffle their pieces back and
forth. The resulting equal material ending should have been a draw
with best play, but as it was conducted was in fact a win from
either side on several occassions!!
My assessment so far: a. CM has superior opening book
b. GNUCHESS seems stronger in the middle
game
c. both are equally weak in the ending
NOTE: I've yet to try them at higher levels. I know from experience
that CM isn't half bad at the higher levels.
Your 2200 fish-at-large
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,3651a38f6633773f X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-07-09 15:25:55 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tellab5!stein From: stein@tellabs.com (Peter Stein) Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: GNUCHESS Keywords: opening book, pawn promotion, match vs. CM 2100 Message-ID: <2971@tellab5.tellabs.com> Date: 9 Jul 90 22:25:55 GMT Sender: news@Tellabs.COM Lines: 36 Posted: Mon Jul 9 23:25:55 1990