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Subject: Re: Ferret's stunning 23.Ne6!! against Crafty

Author: Mike S.

Date: 12:29:17 05/29/01

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On May 29, 2001 at 13:44:04, Dann Corbit wrote:

>(...)

>Those few moves where you look at it and say "What in the world can that be?"
>and have to look at it for 15 minutes to understand what is going on -- to me
>that is the essense of good chess.  If I can guess the right move over and over
>again, I know the chess is not terrific, because [cough] I understand it.
>;-)

I couldn't agree more. That is also what I expect from computer chess...
surprising, brilliant moves and ideas. It's good when the programs can find what
masters have found and played before, but of course it's even better when a
program plays such moves itself, like Ferret did in this example.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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