Author: Amir Ban
Date: 05:27:50 09/09/01
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On September 08, 2001 at 23:24:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 08, 2001 at 14:07:22, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >> >>The question was a post where DB saw something the current >>programs can't see. This is one. >> >>-- >>GCP > > >I wish I could give more information about "the position". All I recall is >that Bert and I were sitting at the table, with Murray and Hsu on the other >side. Hsu left to go to the restroom. after a couple of minutes into a >search (I don't recall whether it was a ponder search or right after we had >made a move) murray noticed that the program had failed high. He commented >"it is picking on your bishop and the score just jumped." When I asked him >"how much" he said "+2". Since we were not seeing any problem, Bert and I >were assuming they had some sort of quirk in the hardware or software. But >our score steadily dropped until several moves later the bottom dropped out >and we were at -2 or so. > >I remember that the problem started on the move of the c-pawn, as discussed >a year ago or so. And at that point their search failed high. I don't recall >the depth. I do remember that in their PV (the part displayed by the software) >they indicated which moves were singular-extended, and most of them were in >that particular position. > 27...c5 doesn't win material, and it's easy to see this by the way the game continued. White's 34.Nb2 is an unforced blunder. White can play better earlier, like 32.Bg5, and it's black advantage but not more. All this has been pointed out before. What we are asked to believe here is not only that DT saw a (non-existent) combination no one else can find, but that so did Cray Blitz. Amir >I had seen them do this to others, so it wasn't particularly remarkable at the >time and I didn't take any careful notes. I did make a note on the log file, >but that paper log has long since been lost somewhere or other.
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