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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