Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 21:36:58 05/11/98
Hi all: For the sake to add something more to the discussion about Queen wandering in the opening when no book is activated, here I give the first moves played without book, at 30 seconds the move, by an experimental program a friend of mine has put in my hands for a series of testings I am actually performing. The positional capabilities of this X-program, as I will call it with enormous wit, are pretty impressive as much as being just a very premature beta version, almost not tuned yet, even so you can see he managed to play a reasonable series of moves WITHOUT falling in the temptation to try to keep the pawn. A pity I cannot give you the log where you could see in the analysis the program performed how it rejected the protection of his pawn in the very first plys until he got as the best the sound G8F6 In fact, until move 6 the game even followed the path of Pancheko-Yermolinsky, that you can find in the great database of Chess Assistant. Of course the next move, Cc6, is not so good, but at least IS NOT a Queen move and produces a somewhat cramped but decent position. This is one of the facts that has impressed me more about this amazing program. Many commercial engines without books just do what they can to keep his pawn: if not with the queen, at least with another soldier. Sorry: the name of the creator and his criature I cannot give due to oaths of strict secrecy until .... White: Fernando Black: X-Program without book, 30 seconds per move. W 1. d2-d4 B 1. d7-d5 W 2. c2-c4 B 2. d5xc4 W 3. Cg1-f3 B 3. e7-e6 W 4. e2-e3 B 4. Cg8-f6 ...it picked up this in the very end of the analysis. He rejected b5 around ply 4 or 5. Never considered queen to D5. Never, also, the awful Be6. W 5. Ff1xc4 B 5. a7-a6 W 6. a2-a4 B 6. Cb8-c6 W 7. O-O B 7. Ff8-e7 ... This one he picked up in the end of the analysis after considering Bb4+ for a while. W 8. Cb1-c3 B 8. O-O W 9. e3-e4 ...this the program forecasted from the beginning. B 9. Cf6-d7 ... and end of the opening experiment. The Queen has been stand-still like a photo...
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