Author: Karsten Bauermeister
Date: 04:12:14 03/25/98
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On March 25, 1998 at 03:44:14, Howard Exner wrote: >Thanks for the games. After playing over some of the games I noticed >many very nice moves. This one by Hiarcs was one: >3rnrk1/1b2bp1p/pqn1p1p1/1p2B1N1/3P1Q2/P1N5/1P2BPPP/R2R2K1 w - - id >"Hiarcs 6 K6-233 - Rebel 8 K6-233"; bm "g5h7"; > >One really strange move came from the following: >1R6/1P4k1/6p1/3K1p1p/5P2/5P1P/1r6/8 w - - id "Chess System Tal Cy - The >King 2.55 K6-20"; CSTal played R-g8+ which of course is suicide. Is this >an operator error (perhaps due to the beer) or a bug? Hello Howard, you are partly right, this move is really suicide. this happens to an very strange behavior of CSTal: It stands no beer! No, of course this move has another reason. Before Rg8 the operator had to change the time control from, I hope I remember right, 40/2h to 55 minutes/game. Chess System Tal took the new time control and set his clock to 3:00:00 or so, because of the moves played before. Unfortunately the operator forgot to change the clock, too! So the program thought, it has still lost on time! We discussed these situation, if we should set this game to a draw, but we decided not to do, because we had the rule, that during a game no intervention of the operator is allowed, instead of setting time-control/clocks. But when something happend, always the operator must take the consequences, because there were prices given to the (human)-winners. So in fact this game was lost due to a combination of the strange behavior of Chess System Tal and inattentivity of his operator. > > In this game there >is a neat trick that can win in such positions. The side with the passed >pawn should advance the pawn to the 6th rank, leaving the square in >front >of the pawn open for the king. Chess programs always seem to advance the >passer to the 7th rank and the king is unable to safely advance. Karsten
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