Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:08:51 12/12/00
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On December 12, 2000 at 17:30:16, Joshua Lee wrote:
>I was recently looking over my game against Averno(X) which is a strong winboard
>program. I kept the position closed and was looking forward to the 50 move rule
>at move 82 well we get from 32 to 62 with no captures and it decides to exchange
>off it's good bishop for my bad one leaving me with a Strong knight against it's
>bad dark squared bishop why thankyou .... move 78 i look at this move rook takes
>Bishop but my mind was already made up ....Follow your gut feeling is the moral
>to this story
>
>which program finds this and doesn't change it's mind not fritz untill 40
>minutes ......on 800Mhz what's more annoying is the next day against the same
>computer Rook takes bishop is the winning move again but in early the
>middlegame.
>
> MR-LEE-AvernoX
>7k/3rq2p/1p4p1/pNpPp1P1/P1P1PbQP/8/4K3/5R2 w - - 0 1
I was not sure whether crafty is supposed to like Rxf4 or not, but here is my
output anyway. If it is right, it is a genius. If it is wrong, it isn't _my_
fault. :)
(2) 11-> 1.27 1.28 1. Rxf4 exf4 2. Qxf4 Qe8 3. e5 Rf7
4. Qe4 Re7 5. e6 Kg7 6. Qe5+ Kf8 <HT>
12 1.91 1.28 1. Rxf4 exf4 2. Qxf4 Qe8 3. e5 Rf7
4. Qe3 Re7 5. e6 Kg8 6. Qe4 Kg7 7.
Qe5+ Kg8 8. Kd3 <HT>
(2) 12-> 5.39 1.28 1. Rxf4 exf4 2. Qxf4 Qe8 3. e5 Rf7
4. Qe3 Re7 5. e6 Kg8 6. Qe4 Kg7 7.
Qe5+ Kg8 8. Kd3 <HT>
13 7.96 1.49 1. Rxf4 exf4 2. Qxf4 Qe8 3. e5 Rf7
4. Qe3 Re7 5. e6 Kg8 6. Qf4 Qd7 7.
Kd3
13-> 8.97 1.49 1. Rxf4 exf4 2. Qxf4 Qe8 3. e5 Rf7
4. Qe3 Re7 5. e6 Kg8 6. Qf4 Qd7 7.
Kd3
14 13.61 1.48 1. Rxf4 exf4 2. Qxf4 Qe8 3. e5 Rf7
4. Qe3 Re7 5. e6 Kg8 6. Qe5 Qc8 7.
Kd3 Qe8
(2) 14-> 23.01 1.48 1. Rxf4 exf4 2. Qxf4 Qe8 3. e5 Rf7
4. Qe3 Re7 5. e6 Kg8 6. Qe5 Qc8 7.
Kd3 Qe8
15 32.29 1.63 1. Rxf4 exf4 2. Qxf4 Qe8 3. e5 Rf7
4. Qe3 Re7 5. e6 Kg8 6. Qe5 Qc8 7.
Qd6 Qb7 8. Qf4
(2) 15-> 2:06 1.63 1. Rxf4 exf4 2. Qxf4 Qe8 3. e5 Rf7
4. Qe3 Re7 5. e6 Kg8 6. Qe5 Qc8 7.
Qd6 Qb7 8. Qf4
16 2:43 1.51 1. Rxf4 exf4 2. Qxf4 Qe8 3. e5 Rf7
4. Qg3 Qb8 5. Nd6 Re7 6. e6 Kg8 7.
Nf5 Qxg3 8. Nxg3 Kg7 9. Kd3
16-> 4:07 1.51 1. Rxf4 exf4 2. Qxf4 Qe8 3. e5 Rf7
4. Qg3 Qb8 5. Nd6 Re7 6. e6 Kg8 7.
Nf5 Qxg3 8. Nxg3 Kg7 9. Kd3
I assume it isn't going to change its mind, based on the
score slowly going up and it liking the move from ply-=2 on...
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