Author: Kai Lübke
Date: 04:02:54 08/16/98
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On August 15, 1998 at 18:48:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Computers are really not a threat of any kind at correspondence chess. We had [snip] >lower levels, computer impact could be felt. But you aren't going to find a >2400 correspondence computer for a long while... I totally agree. I have a 2080 correspondence chess rating and once lost a game in 13 moves. In the post mortem I found that almost all of my programs would have lost just as fast (Junior, Fritz, MChess etc., given the 10-30 min/move that I typically use in my games). Here's the game (I'm White, my opponent has a 2200 rating): 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. d4 Bg4 4. f3 Bf5 5. c4 e6 6. dxe6 Nc6 (all theory so far) 7. exf7+ (seconded by Junior, Nimzo, Chessmaster, Rebel, MChess) 7...Kxf7 8. Be3 (seconded by all programs) 8...Bb4+ 9. Kf2 (seconded by all except Hiarcs & Nimzo) 9... Re8 10. Ne2 (seconded by all except Rebel) 10... Rxe3!! 11. Kxe3 (seconded by all, trivial) 11...Qe7+ 12. Kf2 (seconded by all, trivial) 12...Re8 13. Nbc3 (fairly trivial) Now all programs see black up by +2,5 or more and the game is clearly lost (in the actual game, I carried on until move 23, but it was hopeless...). At least Junior, CM and MChess would have played the game exactly as I did and thus would have lost. --- Shep
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