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Subject: Re: Correspondence Chess and computers

Author: blass uri

Date: 04:29:03 08/16/98

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On August 16, 1998 at 07:02:54, Kai Lübke wrote:

>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).

In a correspondence game you can give programs more time then 10-30 min/move

The question if they would have lost in 5 hours per move

Uri


>
>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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