Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Played a few quick games against the Citrine

Played a few fast games against the Citrine to get a feel for its playing style. I must admit it made a few moves which impressed me. I was feeling good in most of the games and then all of a sudden I realized it had planned some rather deep tactical surprises for me and all of a sudden I was down a pawn or two. So far I am impressed but it does take a little getting used to how to move the pieces on the sensor pads. If you don't do it right and in a particular order the machine squaks at you.

Using an older version of the Beta Arena software I was able to flawlessly interface the chess computer to the graphic interface of the arena software. It is so nice to play over the board and see the peices actually move on the laptop chess software. This allows you to save the game as a pgn file to analyze later.

I won a game (after about 5 played) and will post that shortly along with first thoughts about the Chess Master School.

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