Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 05:47:42 04/24/04
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On April 24, 2004 at 08:07:48, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>On April 24, 2004 at 07:32:32, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On April 24, 2004 at 07:04:44, Johan Havegheer wrote:
>>
>>>Hello
>>>
>>>Ruffian won against The King in a tremendous endgame
>>>
>>>To djordje : Everything is working fine, out off book against Hydra yesterday
>>>with
>>>+ 0.56
>>>
>>>We lost against Hydra due to the depth and a wrong plan in the endgame
>>
>>
>>What do you mean that you lost due to the depth.
>>Did Ruffian need another ply to avoid the losing blunder?
>>
>>Uri
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>Ruffian reaches ply 18 easily here, but it still clings on to gxh4. It needs
>play 19 to see that things are not peachy. (BTW, Hydra was doing a 20 ply search
>here.) But I doubt that a single CPU version of Ruffian could actually avoid
>the move at the Leiden time controls anyway. As already pointed out some other
>programs also go for the pawn. What does Movei do?
>
>Djordje
I doubt that it's a matter of depth and would rather say
it's a matter of chess knowledge.
Kurt
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