Author: John Merlino
Date: 18:37:06 03/21/01
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On March 21, 2001 at 20:17:58, Mike S. wrote: >It appears as if the CM8K (patched or unpatched) likes to play the King's >Gambit, but doesn't know the Falkbeer counter gambit. It has to calculate after >1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5. - Of course, this opening has not been forgotten; the >CM8000.obk contains a long line until the 12th move actually. But CM doesn't >access these book moves. > >Btw. this problem occured during the computer tournament held in Aufseß, >Germany, recently. Results and PGN at the web pages of Mr. F.Wiesenecker: > >http://members.aon.at/wck/ > >The game where CM8K had the Falkbeer problem, was against Shredder 5 in the 8th >round. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl This is not a bug, at least not a bug in accessing the data. 2...d5 has a 0 priority, as do all subsequent moves in the line, meaning they will never be played. I don't profess to know WHY they have a 0 priority, but they do. This, therefore, means that the program is behaving properly according to the book data. jm
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