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Subject: Re: Model Game for Testing Programs....... Position at 21

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 15:03:33 03/26/00

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Hello Chessfun,

Exactly.  The first position (21.e4!!) is _very_ difficult.  We always tend to
insist on programs being very good tacticians and the position in this case is
based on a positional sac.  Thus the sac is tactical, but the grounds for it are
positional.  The combination of the two is why 21.e4!! is one hell of a move to
find.  I believe that many humans would be able to find it, but very few
computer programs.  You are about right, I believe, that at least ten minutes of
pondering are needed.  Would be interesting to test a program on a quad box -
Deep Junior or Crafty, perhaps?  Or Ernst's Dark Thought?

***  Djordje



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