"A Propos" Thinker Passive...

[fern]

After reading some enthusiastic comments about Thinker, I decided to give to it a try, a real one, a long game seriously thought.
So I did.
I played with care. Slowly, I developed my position trying not to leave weak spots. In the meantime, to my amazement, the program played the same, slowly, developing and taking an ENORMOUS lapse of time to play what seemed obvious moves in the phase from opening to middle game. There were moments when I thought the program had freezed. Sometimes 10 minutes to put his cavalry in C6....
Well, after some time I begun to make of my position a rock solid line of trenches. Yeah, Guderian and his panzers could come and I could reject them all.
And then....
Let me be a poet for a while:
Like a lightning flashing in the ceiling of a taxi cab.
Like a piano falling on your head in the middle of Central park
Like someone stabbing you in a church.
Five moves and all was over.

Still dumbed regards
Fernando

[Ovyron]

Well, Thinker Passive is great against engines, but against humans Thinker Active and version 5.1F are recommended.

[swami]

Well, Thinker Passive is great against engines, but against humans Thinker Active and version 5.1F are recommended.

yes, I think Lance recommended the Active Thinker when playing human vs engine.

I don't know why Fernando has problems with this engine, He should used this in Arena instead.

[fern]

Man, It seems I was misunderstood. It was the machine the one that won the game....
Fernando