Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:28:37 05/31/01
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On May 31, 2001 at 05:00:59, Michael Conway wrote:
>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
Thanks for pointing this out, Michael.
I'll fix it today.
Christophe
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