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Subject: ChessGenius vs. Chess Tiger for the Palm - Interesting 10-Min Game

Author: Michael Conway

Date: 02:00:59 05/31/01


In this game, Chess Tiger blundered away a knight in the opening with the
terrible 7...h6?? and then came back to crush ChessGenius using a powerful pawn
push.

I think this game shows the importance of the opening book, especially in a
weaker chess engine (7...Qe7 is the book continuation).  The game also showed
ChessGenius' weakness in evaluating advanced and passed pawns.

Interestingly, Genius likes 7...Qe7 after around three seconds of evaluation
while Tiger after six minutes in analysis mode preferred 7...Be7 (after giving
7...Qh4 a long look).  Tiger never gave 7...Qe7 serious consideration.

Christophe, I noticed in analysis mode that if Tiger had given itself several
seconds to look at 7...h6, it wouldn't have played it.  Can anything be done to
the program to reduce the likelihood of such blunders?

Thanks.


TRGpro overclocked to 28 MHz.  No PB.

[Event "10-min Game"]
[Site "Brooklyn"]
[Date "2001.05.31"]
[Round "1"]
[White "ChessGenius"]
[Black "Chess Tiger"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 Nxe4 4. Bd3 d5 5. Nxe5 Nd7 6. Nxd7 Bxd7 7. Qe2 h6
8. f3 Bc6 9. fxe4 dxe4 10. c3 Qe7 11. Bc4 g6 12. O-O f5 13. g4 Qg7
14. Bf4 Bd6 15. Bxd6 cxd6 16. Nd2 d5 17. Bb5 O-O 18. gxf5 gxf5+ 19. Kh1 Kh7
20. Rg1 Qf7 21. Raf1 f4 22. Bxc6 bxc6 23. Qg4 h5 24. Qg5 f3 25. Qg3 Rab8
26. b3 Rbe8 27. c4 Rg8 28. Qd6 Rxg1+ 29. Rxg1 f2 30. Rf1 e3 31. Qxc6 e2
32. Qxd5 Qxd5+ 33. cxd5 e1=Q 34. Kg2 Qxd2 35. h4 Rg8+ 36. Kf3 Qd3+
37. Kxf2 Rf8+ 38. Kg2 Qxf1+ 39. Kg3 Rf3+ 40. Kh2 Rh3# 0-1



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