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Kevin Pacey wrote on Sun, Jan 31, 2016 01:17 AM UTC:
Sorry H.G., I hadn't been in a hurry up till now, and didn't realize you were eager. I wanted to at least see how my 2 games with Carlos were going to develop before getting more adventurous by playing a computer. Looking at our game of Sac Chess, Carlos seems to be doing very well, which doesn't suggest my chances would be good against a program (against a good one, I half expected to score say 1/4, if it would be about 200 rating points higher than my standard chess rating). 

In the meantime, it is becoming more clear to me that looking for a computer-resistant chess variant is a futile exercise, especially now that 19x19 Go computer programs are demonstrably so much stronger than before. I had guessed that it might take up to 100 more years for Go programs to take over and eventually dominate that game, from people.

I also had wanted to try to see my Glinski's Hexagonal Chess game with Carlos to a conclusion, before trying out that link you gave. An irrational concern that I might somehow go wrong and mess up my laptop in some way, before that game had finished, had been with me. Anyway, I'll try to get playing that computer program at Sac Chess soon after my brother & his wife go home tomorrow.

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