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Author: Willie Wood

Date: 16:29:57 11/10/97

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On November 10, 1997 at 16:03:24, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi Robert and all:
>Now with the Paris version of the engine of CST I repeted the test and
>this time the killing line is avoided by the program simply refusing to
>castle after Ng5. After this last move, CST thinks the best is d6, and
>play it. Then he thinks the best for white is Qh5. Wiht that, the line
>ends and it is other game that begins here, with huge advantage for
>black. Interesting to note that althought CST, in the beginning of the
>search, gives a very high score to O-O, he quickly bypass it and goes to
>a long examination of other moves, including d6. He never returns to
>O-O.
>Time was tournament 40/120 and my computer is a MMX 200. CST runned
>from W95. CST would be then the only commercial program not to fall in
>the trap at this rythm? If so, knowledge pay because CST calculate no
>more than 3000 and something n/s in the said conditions.


I just got my new version 6 of Hiarcs for Mac, and I played the opening
against it.  Interestingly, I didn't have to set up the position, since
it played black's moves exactly through 8.  It played the castle, after
quite a bit of thought.  Then, after 9 Nxc7, it played Nd4, attacking
the queen.  More interestingly, I then played on with the standard
attack (Qh5 etc), and eventually the king side attack won for white.

Hiarcs gave me a rating of 3100 after the game.  Not bad!  (Of course,
if I give it more than 10 sec per move, it finds 9... d5 :-)).

WW



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