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Subject: Re: A test position for chess programs(Gambittiger-Tao)

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 13:38:43 10/22/00

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On October 21, 2000 at 15:24:47, Uri Blass wrote:

>[D]r1bqkb1r/pp1p3p/6p1/3P1pN1/3n3Q/8/PP3PPP/R1B1KB1R b KQkq - 0 1
>The test is to avoid Nc2+ without book.
>
>Jeroen claimed that the problem is that Tao had no book but I suspect that the
>problem is the fact that Tao has no king attack evaluation and if you combine
>with the fact that Tao is weak in tactics like most of the chess programs you
>can get the blunder.

Well no big deal you say so but...

a) Tao was capable of beating Quest/Fritz on 2x slower hardware
b) Tao-Xinix (round 6) was a tactical beauty. The King (the reference) could
hardly have mated faster here.

In all, I don't think it is THAT bad tactically...


Ciao,
Bas.







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