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Whoa... I beat Chess

mcshyd said:
I played white with the regular settings. Perhaps I should try one of the variants...

Do you know how the variants change the gameplay?

Satty, you down for a game?
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I didn't look too much into the chess application, I didn't touch a chess board for many, many years... some of the options/variants don't play by the standard chess rules (like crazyhouse)... I hate that.

Sorry, mcshyd, I won't play, but I recommend you a very nice, short, easy reading book about two chess players instead: It's called "Schachnovelle" by Stefan Zweig.
 
satty said:
Sorry, mcshyd, I won't play, but I recommend you a very nice, short, easy reading book about two chess players instead: It's called "Schachnovelle" by Stefan Zweig.
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why the hesitation? do you no longer play?
 
I tried for awhile to beat chesss, but the day I had the chess application in checkmate, it crashed on me. After that, the application would freeze up every time I had it within a move of checkmate. This was in Panther. I havent played it in Tiger.

Sore loser.
 
Panther Chess was definitely harder. What is real embarrassing is that I could not beat it, but my wife beat it on her first try -- that's chess mind you. Smart woman.

After reading this thread I decided to try Tiger Chess on the easiest setting. Beat it easily. Wow, what a surprise.

On a side note, I think I just discovered a way to beat Chess every time with the same moves. Works on my PB and PM933. Funny! :)
 
even i can win on easy i couldnt believe it 'cos i tried it once or twice in panther and got nowhere but in tiger on easiest setting i won :D im the worst chess player ever also :p
 
What the heck, here are the moves that I used.

Note, Chess was on the easiest setting.
 

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mcshyd said:
why the hesitation? do you no longer play?
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I shouldn't/can't play a serious game anymore, honestly. I did play a lot when I was younger (4+ hours a day for a couple of years, mainly against/with myself). Unfortunately, now it won't do me any good: Even the couple of minutes yesterday to check out the application stopped me from falling asleep for hours (I just saw a chess board all night and I still have all the moves in my head).

My last "serious" game was about 7 years ago - after a nearly 10 years break* - against a guy training/playing multiple times a week in a decent league team (on 1st board). It ended in a draw.

* Man, I am really old now... and in a couple of hours my next birthday is coming up :)
 
mcshyd said:
well, on the easiest setting, you should be able to beat it every time...lol
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I was not commenting on beating the Tiger version of Chess on the easiest setting, which is easy to do.

The point of my post is that the same moves work every time -- at least on the two computers that I tested the solution shown above.

Edit: I am interested if my solution above works for anybody else. Please give it a try and let me know. Thanks!
 
Well good to hear that this is a common problem. I taught myself how to play Chess last week using this app and I have beaten it once, drawn twice, and lost countless times in the past 7 days. One draw was on strongest setting. I was embarrassed every other time I tried it on strongest though. I think my impatience would get to me.

Edit: Just won again. The computer likes to castle and then start doing piece elimination. So just catch him not paying attention and trap his king in his castle.
 
My friend got the idea to use the chess game to cheat on online chess. Yes we get that bored during finals week. But I beat someone with a rating over 2500 on yahoo chess. It was a close game but the computer is just too good.

To do this is simple. Play the same color on the mac app that your opponent is playing.
 
sushi said:
I was not commenting on beating the Tiger version of Chess on the easiest setting, which is easy to do.

The point of my post is that the same moves work every time -- at least on the two computers that I tested the solution shown above.

Edit: I am interested if my solution above works for anybody else. Please give it a try and let me know. Thanks!
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It didn't work here.
 

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"Life finds a way"

arcobb said:
I won a chess game in Tiger! First time ever!... and a second to boot. Seems like the easy to "faster" to “stronger” settings actually mean something now! Before I never ever won a game

Maybe this is one of those 200 features we keep hearing about!?
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I's good to know that that a human being beat up a computer; It's just a matter of time, in which, a human defeats a computer again. I truly realized that computers know how to calculate fast as well as humans could if they want to make it happen. I know a lot about mathematics and computers; we will always have to say what to do to computers, no matter what are their capabilities. We all know that computers were made by humans and that humans always "finds a way" for being the most dominant specie. I do believe that humans and computers will always have a rivalry; what I'm saying is, that, for every chess program they produce to defeat a human being, the human will get that victory back in their hands again. The only reason in the past they lose to the top Grandmasters it's because even Grandmasters had no knowledge about their idiosyncrasies. I only hope to know about another kasparov, Bobby Fisher or Capablanca in my life.
 
vozuya said:
I's good to know that that a human being beat up a computer; It's just a matter of time, in which, a human defeats a computer again. I truly realized that computers know how to calculate fast as well as humans could if they want to make it happen. I know a lot about mathematics and computers; we will always have to say what to do to computers, no matter what are their capabilities. We all know that computers were made by humans and that humans always "finds a way" for being the most dominant specie. I do believe that humans and computers will always have a rivalry; what I'm saying is, that, for every chess program they produce to defeat a human being, the human will get that victory back in their hands again. The only reason in the past they lose to the top Grandmasters it's because even Grandmasters had no knowledge about their idiosyncrasies. I only hope to know about another kasparov, Bobby Fisher or Capablanca in my life.
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Was writing all that, worth bumping a year and a half old thread?
 
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