Computers sometimes make you feel smart

Submitted by vergil66 on Fri, 03/21/2008 at 2:45pm.

I was looking online for other chess-playing programs that I've used in the past and came across the most recent version of jChess--a cross-platform program that seemed to be good to recommend. So, before uploading the program, I thought I might just need to take it for a spin and it was making decent moves until I skewered its Queen.

Am I supposed to do that?

So I did a quick computer analysis of the game and for the most part I'm the one with little blunders here and there. But move 23 seemed to be the turning point of the game will jChess' 23. .. Bxf4?? Take a peek and see if you agree that though I saw the skewer on the next move, that jChess wasn't playing super strong:

» posted in vergil66's Blog

| 79 reads | 2 comments

Comments:

by vergil66 - 6 months ago
Indiana United States

Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 32

To be fair, and I should have included this in the post, I was running the program on a slower machine (700 mz) and that might have had something to do with the outcome. From the website:

"and finally an impressive 2,224,527 nodes per second... If you have one of the new Apple MacPro Penryn 8 cores at 2.8 GHz! ;-) "

I don't have that speed at all.

by erik - 6 months ago
Mountain View, CA United States

Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 6476

hehe! good game. lucky he fell for that. i wonder what the search depth is for j2chess...

^ Back to top