Chess Titans

Does anyone know how good Chess Titans is? I put it on level 6 twice and it beat Kasparov Chess at a rating of 2350, easily. I wish I still had Chessmaster. Also, from what little I have found on the net it seems that a lot of people are complaining about bugs. I haven't had any problems with it.

Hi,

By a chessplayer's standard it's fairly low on the difficulty scale
according to associates of mine that are serious about the game. I'm a
casual player, and have found it fairly easy to stymie the machine on the
higher levels.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
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Does anyone know how good Chess Titans is? I put it on level 6 twice and it
beat Kasparov Chess at a rating of 2350, easily. I wish I still had
Chessmaster. Also, from what little I have found on the net it seems that a
lot of people are complaining about bugs. I haven't had any problems with
it.

"Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
news:...
Does anyone know how good Chess Titans is? I put it on level 6 twice and it
beat Kasparov Chess at a rating of 2350, easily. I wish I still had
Chessmaster. Also, from what little I have found on the net it seems that a
lot of people are complaining about bugs. I haven't had any problems with
it.
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Good for beginers and learning types Vista Titans is OK.

But going beyond novice and the experienced players will much prefer GNU
Chess on Linux.

"Canuck57" <> wrote in message
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> "Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> Does anyone know how good Chess Titans is? I put it on level 6 twice and
> it beat Kasparov Chess at a rating of 2350, easily. I wish I still had
> Chessmaster. Also, from what little I have found on the net it seems that
> a lot of people are complaining about bugs. I haven't had any problems
> with it.
> --------
> Good for beginers and learning types Vista Titans is OK.
>
> But going beyond novice and the experienced players will much prefer GNU
> Chess on Linux.
>

Maybe so but the millions of users out there will have no use for that
INFERIOR OS. If you want to get real work done you need a real Operating
System. That is where Microsoft solutions come in.

If you can't get laid and need to tinker around with a TOY OS, then Ubuntu
is right up your alley.

"Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message news:...
Does anyone know how good Chess Titans is? I put it on level 6 twice and it beat Kasparov Chess at a rating of 2350, easily. I wish I still had Chessmaster. Also, from what little I have found on the net it seems that a lot of people are complaining about bugs. I haven't had any problems with it.


It is supposed to be FUN. It would not be fun if it beat you all the time.
Serious Chess Players have other programs to test and master their skills.

> "Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> Does anyone know how good Chess Titans is? I put it on level 6 twice and
> it beat Kasparov Chess at a rating of 2350, easily. I wish I still had
> Chessmaster. Also, from what little I have found on the net it seems that
> a lot of people are complaining about bugs. I haven't had any problems
> with it.


"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Hi,
>
> By a chess player's standard it's fairly low on the difficulty scale
> according to associates of mine that are serious about the game. I'm a
> casual player, and have found it fairly easy to stymie the machine on the
> higher levels.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

I'm sorry, but I don't know if I believe that. For one, the "average"
"Chess player" rating is 1600. Kasparov only goes to 2350 which isn't
Grandmaster (I think Grandmaster is 2700?) but is quite a ways up there.
Now, if Chess Titans, at only 60%, is kicking the **** out of a 2350 rating
ON LEVEL 6 I'm willing to bet it could hang with GNU or Chessmaster on the
higher levels. FWIW, which admittedly isn't much, I taught myself chess at
about age 7 and have been playing off and on my whole life. I beat everyone
I've played pretty much, I realize that doesn't mean anything being the
average person that thinks they are a chess player isn't even close to a
1600 rating (which is just average in the Chess world). I guess what I'm
saying is either you must be a really good chess player if you are beating
Chess Titans on even
higher levels. Or everyone is just parroting the same old crud about it. I
guess I am going to have to come up with that Chessmaster cd after all. Or
maybe I misunderstood what you meant by "stymie." Anyhow, thanks for the
response. I don't mean to come off as a dickhead or anything.

"Cat-In-A-Flat" <> wrote in message
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> "Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> Does anyone know how good Chess Titans is? I put it on level 6 twice and
> it beat Kasparov Chess at a rating of 2350, easily. I wish I still had
> Chessmaster. Also, from what little I have found on the net it seems that
> a lot of people are complaining about bugs. I haven't had any problems
> with it.
>
> How did you play it against Kasparov ?

It beat it easily.

> Did both chess engines run on the same PC?

No, it was my new laptop ( running Chess Titans) against my desktop running
XP.(and Kasparov ).


> The CPU of the PC will affect the ELO of a chess engine.

Hmmm. It seems like it would play at the level advertised maybe just take
longer to make moves or something. But in fairness my laptop has an AMD X2
Turion 2 gig CPU and my desktop is a 500mhz p3. Not to mention the
difference in RAM.

>
> The only bug in Chess Titans I was aware of was "castling thru check".
> I can't replicate it here, so whether or not it was a bug?
>
> Another common bug was "en passant"...it wasn't a bug, just newbie players
> unaware of pawn capture that way.
>
>
User errors.

There are free chess programs that are better than Titans- Google free
chess programs


On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 23:15:37 -0400, "Cat-In-A-Flat" <>
wrote:

>"Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
>news:3WUBl.15979$.. .
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>> "Cat-In-A-Flat" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> "Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>> Does anyone know how good Chess Titans is? I put it on level 6 twice and
>>> it beat Kasparov Chess at a rating of 2350, easily. I wish I still had
>>> Chessmaster. Also, from what little I have found on the net it seems that
>>> a lot of people are complaining about bugs. I haven't had any problems
>>> with it.
>>>
>>> How did you play it against Kasparov ?
>>
>> It beat it easily.
>>
>>> Did both chess engines run on the same PC?
>>
>> No, it was my new laptop ( running Chess Titans) against my desktop
>> running XP.(and Kasparov ).
>>
>>
>>> The CPU of the PC will affect the ELO of a chess engine.
>>
>> Hmmm. It seems like it would play at the level advertised maybe just take
>> longer to make moves or something. But in fairness my laptop has an AMD X2
>> Turion 2 gig CPU and my desktop is a 500mhz p3. Not to mention the
>> difference in RAM.
>>
>
>I would guess Chess Titans to be in the 1700's at the high level, 600 at
>low.
>
>The CPU is the difference.
>
>>>
>>> The only bug in Chess Titans I was aware of was "castling thru check".
>>> I can't replicate it here, so whether or not it was a bug?
>>>
>>> Another common bug was "en passant"...it wasn't a bug, just newbie
>>> players unaware of pawn capture that way.
>>>
>>>
>> User errors.

"hgbnjk" <> wrote in message
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> There are free chess programs that are better than Titans- Google free
> chess programs

So why don't one of you guys step up to the plate. I'll use Chess Titans,
y'all can use your program of choice and we'll see what happens

>
>
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 23:15:37 -0400, "Cat-In-A-Flat" <>
> wrote:
>
>>"Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
>>news:3WUBl.15979$. ..
>>>
>>> "Cat-In-A-Flat" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>> "Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
>>>> news:...
>>>> Does anyone know how good Chess Titans is? I put it on level 6 twice
>>>> and
>>>> it beat Kasparov Chess at a rating of 2350, easily. I wish I still had
>>>> Chessmaster. Also, from what little I have found on the net it seems
>>>> that
>>>> a lot of people are complaining about bugs. I haven't had any problems
>>>> with it.
>>>>
>>>> How did you play it against Kasparov ?
>>>
>>> It beat it easily.
>>>
>>>> Did both chess engines run on the same PC?
>>>
>>> No, it was my new laptop ( running Chess Titans) against my desktop
>>> running XP.(and Kasparov ).
>>>
>>>
>>>> The CPU of the PC will affect the ELO of a chess engine.
>>>
>>> Hmmm. It seems like it would play at the level advertised maybe just
>>> take
>>> longer to make moves or something. But in fairness my laptop has an AMD
>>> X2
>>> Turion 2 gig CPU and my desktop is a 500mhz p3. Not to mention the
>>> difference in RAM.
>>>
>>
>>I would guess Chess Titans to be in the 1700's at the high level, 600 at
>>low.
>>
>>The CPU is the difference.
>>
>>>>
>>>> The only bug in Chess Titans I was aware of was "castling thru check".
>>>> I can't replicate it here, so whether or not it was a bug?
>>>>
>>>> Another common bug was "en passant"...it wasn't a bug, just newbie
>>>> players unaware of pawn capture that way.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> User errors.
>

"Cat-In-A-Flat" <> wrote in message
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> "Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
> news:3WUBl.15979$...
>>
>> "Cat-In-A-Flat" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> "Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>> Does anyone know how good Chess Titans is? I put it on level 6 twice and
>>> it beat Kasparov Chess at a rating of 2350, easily. I wish I still had
>>> Chessmaster. Also, from what little I have found on the net it seems
>>> that a lot of people are complaining about bugs. I haven't had any
>>> problems with it.
>>>
>>> How did you play it against Kasparov ?
>>
>> It beat it easily.
>>
>>> Did both chess engines run on the same PC?
>>
>> No, it was my new laptop ( running Chess Titans) against my desktop
>> running XP.(and Kasparov ).
>>
>>
>>> The CPU of the PC will affect the ELO of a chess engine.
>>
>> Hmmm. It seems like it would play at the level advertised maybe just take
>> longer to make moves or something. But in fairness my laptop has an AMD
>> X2 Turion 2 gig CPU and my desktop is a 500mhz p3. Not to mention the
>> difference in RAM.
>>
>
> I would guess Chess Titans to be in the 1700's at the high level, 600 at
> low.
>
> The CPU is the difference.

I don't know about that. I played a couple of more games, only this time
switched sides, and Kasparov killed CT.


>
>>>
>>> The only bug in Chess Titans I was aware of was "castling thru check".
>>> I can't replicate it here, so whether or not it was a bug?
>>>
>>> Another common bug was "en passant"...it wasn't a bug, just newbie
>>> players unaware of pawn capture that way.
>>>
>>>
>> User errors.
>