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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger, round 8

Author: Christoph Fieberg

Date: 07:22:32 07/03/01

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On July 03, 2001 at 02:10:32, Albert Silver wrote:

>On July 03, 2001 at 01:08:54, Tony Asdourian wrote:
>
>>CT just beat a second GM, this one rated 2550 or so.  Apparently made a really
>>nice sac in the process.  I've always been quite impressed with Fritz6, but
>>looking at what CT 14.0 and GT2 are doing reminds me of the old Novag and RISC
>>2500 dedicated computers, which for their time played with attacking flair but
>>were also more than just tactical monsters, they seemed to "enjoy" playing
>>aggresively.  It is fun to watch this new program play so well.  The online
>>interview with Christopher Theron he gave recently is also the most revealing
>>I've read from a top programmer in quite a while.
>
>It's game against Rodriguez was good, but this one was really pathetic. What the
>heck was Ricardi thinking when he played the opening? He fell for a fairly basic
>tactic on move 7 leaving him much worse and by move 13 he's down a pawn. After
>that it was just a matter of time. Really not a lot to say about it other than
>it was a point for Tiger.
>
>                                      Albert

My database has 2 games after 7.Bb5+. In one Black played the sidestep of the
King 7....Kf8. In the other 7....Nd7.
6. Nf3 is strong (more often 6. Bb5+ is played) and this move was calculated by
Chess Tiger (no book move!)

Maksimovic,B (2400) - Duric,S [A44]
YUG-34ch Bjelovar, 1979

1.d4 c5 2.d5 e5 3.Sc3 d6 4.e4 Le7 5.f4 Lf6 6.Sf3 Lg4 7.Lb5+ Kf8 8.0-0 Lxf3
9.Dxf3 De7 10.g4 a6 11.g5 axb5 12.gxf6 Sxf6 13.fxe5 dxe5 14.Lg5 b4 15.Se2 Ta6
16.Sg3 Sbd7 17.Sf5 De8 18.Kh1 h6 19.Le3 Da8 20.Tg1 Txa2 21.Taf1 g5 22.Sg3 Ta6
23.Sh5 Dc8 24.Df5 De8 25.Lxc5+ Sxc5 26.Sxf6 De7 27.Dc8+ Kg7 28.Sh5+ Kh7 29.Df5+
Kg8 30.Tg2 Sd7 31.Tgf2 Th7 32.Dxh7+ Kxh7 33.Txf7+ Dxf7 34.Txf7+ Kg6 35.Txd7 Kxh5
36.Txb7 Kg4 37.Kg2 Ta4 38.b3 Ta2 39.Tc7 Kf4 40.Tc4 g4 41.Kf2 h5 42.Ke2 h4 43.Kd3
Ta1 44.Tc8 Kf3 45.Te8 Kg2 46.Th8 g3 47.hxg3 hxg3 48.Ke2 Kg1 49.Te8 g2 50.d6 Ta7
51.Txe5 Tg7 52.Te7 Tg8 53.Th7 Th8 54.Tg7 Th7 55.Tg5 Th5 56.Tg8 Th8 57.Tg5 Th7
58.Ke3 Kh2 59.Kd4 1-0


Tatenhorst,V (2230) - Foerster,A (2215) [A44]
OLNN, 1992

1.d4 c5 2.d5 e5 3.e4 d6 4.Sc3 Le7 5.f4 Lf6 6.Sf3 Lg4 7.Lb5+ Sd7 8.f5 g6 9.0-0
gxf5 10.exf5 Lxf5 11.Sh4 Lg6 12.Sxg6 hxg6 13.Df3 Th7 14.Se4 Le7 15.Lg5 f6
16.Lxf6 Sgxf6 17.Sxf6+ Lxf6 18.Dxf6 Dxf6 19.Txf6 0-0-0 20.Lxd7+ Kxd7 21.Taf1 Te7
22.Txg6 e4 23.Tff6 Kc7 24.Te6 1-0


Christoph







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