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Subject: Re: Ferret's stunning 23.Ne6!! against Crafty

Author: Mike S.

Date: 08:15:27 05/30/01

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On May 29, 2001 at 17:40:25, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On May 29, 2001 at 15:29:17, Mike S. wrote:
>(...)
>>That is also what I expect from computer chess...
>>surprising, brilliant moves and ideas. It's good when the programs can find what
>>masters have found and played before, but of course it's even better when a
>>program plays such moves itself, like Ferret did in this example.

>What I'm happy about is that it created the chance to find a shot, albeit a
>marginal shot, since all the fun is in the side-variation.  You can be great at
>finding shots, but if you never achieve a position where there are shots to
>find, it doesn't do you much good.

I felt quite entertained when replaying and analysing this. Sometimes, a single
move is enough to recognise the quality and potential of a chess program. Se6 is
one of these.

On this occasion, I have "introduced" Ferret to the readers of the CSS Forum,
although Ferret doesn't need introducing anymore of course, but I'm sure there
are still some, or many, who do not know very much about Ferret still. So I
thought let's show them this move:

http://f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/20341.htm

Btw. if you like to comment there or whatever, please feel free to post in
english too (although major language is german there, but english is read at
least :o). There's no access password needed.

Regards,
Michael Scheidl



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