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The Trivial Annoyances Thread
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(04-01-2019, 05:28 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: Something that is really starting to annoy me is the realization that my chess ability is limited. I'm playing an online computer program which has 10 levels, I've reached level 6, and the computer has kicked my [BLEEP] about 30 times in a row and I don't seem to be getting any better. This thing throws combinations at me that I don't see coming. It'll sacrifice a piece and let me think I'm winning, and yet it still beats me. And I'll go back and try to replay using various different lines, and there's no way out of getting checkmated. It's really disheartening. Computer chess programs are very advanced. Since there is no chance involved, the computer is only limited by the time it takes to look ahead N moves. Even the best player in the world will lose most of the time. Yes, I know that they only lose to supercomputers, but I remember how good Chessmaster 2000 was on just a 386 PC. I couldn't get past level 2. I had a friend who celebrated the night he beat level 3 (out of ten IIRC). One reason I recommended bridge. Bridge playing computers can still be regularly beat by merely very good human players. "Why should I give information to you when all you want to do is find something wrong with it?" |
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