Author: eric guttenberg
Date: 17:15:20 09/14/99
This probably will not interest too many people because it doesn't involve a top commercial program but it intrigued me. I was playing white against La Dame Blanche on Winboard at g/25. The game went 1.e4 c5; 2.Nf3 d6; 3.d4 c5xd4; 4.Nxd4 Nf6; 5.Nc3 g6; 6.Be3 Bg7; 7.f3 Nc6; 8.Bc4 0-0; 9.Qd2 Bd7; 10.0-0-0 Rc8; This was all in the program's book. I then moved 11.Nb3 and after 11. ... Nb4, I blundered with 12. Nd4?? which of course leaves the bishop on c4 en prise. But instead of taking the bishop, LDB played 12. ... Nc6?? I repeated the position with 13.Nb3 Nb4; 14.Nd4?? Nc6?? and so on. Since I thought that La DameBlanche was a reasonably good Winboard engine I couldn't figure out why she would fail to take a piece. But then I realized that she made the move Nc6?? each time instantly. In each case it restored the position at move 10, which is a book position. Evidently the program thinks 12....Nc6 is a book move if it results in a book position even if the move fails to win a hanging piece. eric
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