Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:45:21 06/28/01
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On June 28, 2001 at 09:51:23, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 28, 2001 at 09:04:41, Shay Bushinsky wrote: > >>You may find Kaissa's historic win details in >> http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/74wc$tix.htm >>Dr. Donskoy, one of three developers, is an often speaker and guest >>in ICCA events. >>The second author, Prof. Adelson Velsky, better known to the vast computer >>science community due to his AVL Trees, lives in Israel. I met him as >>a Prof. in the Bar-Ilan university 2 years ago - but he is indeed in >>his eighties. >>As for the third author Irlazarov (Sp?) I have no knowledge. >> >>FYI >> >>-- Shay > >Thanks for the link > > > > >Ostrich missed a lot of wins against kaissa: > >Position 1: >[D]3r3k/pb4p1/1q5p/4p3/PpBnPp1Q/8/2P2PPP/3RR1K1 w - - 0 1 > >Ostrich miswsed 26.c3 that is winning material > > >Position 2: >Ostrich missed mate in 10 by 35.Rxh6+ > >[D]3r3k/p4Qp1/7p/1b1Bp3/4Pp2/7R/4nqPP/4R2K w - - 0 1 > >Position 3: >Ostrich missed again 38.Rxh6+ > >[D]3r3k/p4Qp1/1q2B2p/1b2p3/4Pp2/7R/4n1PP/1R5K w - - 0 1 > >Position 4: >Ostrich missed 39.Bf5 that was leading to mate in 6 > >[D]3r3k/pq4p1/4B1Qp/1b2p3/4Pp2/7R/4n1PP/1R5K w - - 0 1 > > >Uri That was indeed sad. Most programs of the day could not find those mates. Speeds of 100 nodes per second were pretty fast back then. Chess 4.x only did 2600 nodes per second as it won most of the 1970's events...
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