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Subject: Re: What happened?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 10:35:46 07/15/00

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On July 15, 2000 at 12:46:32, James Robertson wrote:

>On July 15, 2000 at 11:58:26, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On July 15, 2000 at 11:43:30, Daniel Chancey wrote:
>>
>>>Can anyone tell me where Junior went wrong?   And can any other program find the
>>>correct move?
>>>
>>>Castle2000
>>
>>After Bxa3 there is no computer that can find anything better than to resign,
>>not even Deep Blue, which was capable of calculating over 200 Millions moves per
>>second and is 66 times faster than the Primergy, could save itself from defeat
>>after the Bishop sacrifice.
>>
>>Pichard.
>
>By that point it was obvious the game was hopeless. I think he was talking about
>mistakes between about moves 15-25.

In that case move 20.Nd2 forcing the knight out off it centralized post, instead
of Bd2 could have secured a draw.

Pichard.
>
>My opinion is that no computer program right now would play significantly
>better. I think there were no obvious mistakes, but just a general
>misunderstanding and detioriation of the position that led to its eventual
>destruction.
>
>James



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