Re: Anybody been able to beat this #@$%* chess titans game yet?

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Hi I'm pawn. I'm new here and I still haven't won played 71 and counting
times.

What I don't understand is when you just have your king or more why
does just one blue square light up? Because you end up losing. I just
wish it would stop only lighting up one square. I'm NEVER going to win
then. Also when you promote your pawn to queen,rook,knight,etc every
time I do that it gets captured. No matter what I promote it to. Is that
right? Or is the computer cheating? :mad:


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PAWN
 
"PAWN" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi I'm pawn. I'm new here and I still haven't won played 71 and counting
> times.
>
> What I don't understand is when you just have your king or more why
> does just one blue square light up? Because you end up losing. I just
> wish it would stop only lighting up one square. I'm NEVER going to win
> then. Also when you promote your pawn to queen,rook,knight,etc every
> time I do that it gets captured. No matter what I promote it to. Is that
> right? Or is the computer cheating? :mad:


If you are playing at the easiest level, and you cannot beat the computer,
the only explanation is that you are a very bad chess player.

When you promote a pawn, you have to make sure that the square cannot be
attacked before you get the new piece out of danger. Obviously, the enemy's
rooks cannot be a threat, or any other pieces.


ss.
 
"PAWN" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:5548b2877e311b6ec67ad16a0c97a515@nntp-gateway.com...
>
> Hi I'm pawn. I'm new here and I still haven't won played 71 and counting
> times.
>
> What I don't understand is when you just have your king or more why
> does just one blue square light up? Because you end up losing. I just
> wish it would stop only lighting up one square. I'm NEVER going to win
> then. Also when you promote your pawn to queen,rook,knight,etc every
> time I do that it gets captured. No matter what I promote it to. Is that
> right? Or is the computer cheating? :mad:

Funny, I beat it on my first try. Killed a couple of idle afternoons with
it and whooped it 78 times, 4 draws, 2 losses. (Default level 2 I think).

Some weaknesses.

1) Does not seem to factor in en-passant. It makes some wild errors when
you use en-passant. Like a kid having a hissy fit as it didn't know you
could do that.

2) Stacking two rooks infront of the queen, does not see the double/triple
coverage to the kings home line. Always end up getting the queen for a root
and often checkmate.

3) Once you find it has made a mistake, take 5 to see the situation.

4) It is good at finding stalemate. Real tick off when you have a bishop
causing stale mate and your up 2 rooks and a queen.

5) I usually loose at the default level from sloppy moves. (I don't undo
unless the piece got dropped where I didn't intend it to).

What would be interesting is to crank both Titans and GNU/Chess to their max
and have them play each other. My money is on GNU/Chess.
 
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 23:30:08 -0500, PAWN <guest@unknown-email.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi I'm pawn. I'm new here and I still haven't won played 71 and counting
> times.


In my experience Chess Titans plays very poorly, and is easy to beat.
There are lots of much stronger Chess-playing software, such as Fritz.

But we don't all have the same Chess-playing skills. I used to be an
active tournament player.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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