Pythagoras: I saw that you did this. I can't beat the SMIRF any more and yet I can hold my own against you. I'm confused. THough recently I had chance to win a game of Janus Chess against SMIRF. Perhaps my play has gotten better recently, but I can't say.

What I want to know is, what is this anti-computer play you talk of? IS it something that I could easily adopt and use? Does it work against human players? How come the computer programmers don't keep such plans in mind while designing their programs? Does this work against the Backgammon programs? Somehow I think not. These neuronets you speak of for Backgammon, why aren't they used for Chess type games? And what about Dark Chess?