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Subject: Re: Fine 70 same 7 engines

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 05:03:09 09/08/01

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On September 08, 2001 at 07:47:04, Uri Blass wrote:

>I look at the main line and simply do not understand,
>
>6...f6 is an illogical move
>
>8.f7 is more logical than 8.g6

Both moves are a forced mate in 8 :).
>
>All the moves in the main line are legal but seems to be random moves.

This often seems to be the case with these "Gegenfeld"-positions. Shredder
follows Averbakh's analysis until move 6. 6. ...f6 obviously isn't the best move
but the best alternative gets worse than -7 after a very short search -so what ?

pete

>The main line does not encourage me to use shredder at long time control.
>
>I suspect that shredder has a bug at long time control after seeing it and it
>encourages me to continue to use Deep Fritz as my default program for
>correspondence games.
>
>Note that I do not expect programs to find the best moves in the 6th move of the
>main line but I expect them at least to see something that can be a result of
>relatively short search.
>
>6...f6 cannot be a result of short search.
>
>Uri



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