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Subject: Re: ICT 4 Leiden : King vs Ruffian : Ruffian wins

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:33:30 04/24/04

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On April 24, 2004 at 08:47:42, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>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
>>
>>
>>
>>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

Searching deeper is a very important chess knowledge.

Uri



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