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Subject: Re: Really weird SSDF game

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 01:14:31 10/03/01

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On October 03, 2001 at 02:15:29, Helmut Conrady wrote:

>On October 02, 2001 at 15:30:45, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>On October 02, 2001 at 04:46:09, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On October 02, 2001 at 04:38:33, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 02, 2001 at 03:25:00, Harald Faber wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On October 02, 2001 at 03:01:20, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>[Event "Junior7-MCP8"]
>>>>>>[Site "SSDF"]
>>>>>>[Date "2001.??.??"]
>>>>>>[Round "29"]
>>>>>>[White "COMP Junior 7 AMD K6-2 450"]
>>>>>>[Black "COMP MCP8 AMD K6-2 450"]
>>>>>>[Result "1-0"]
>>>>>>[ECO "B17"]
>>>>>>[PlyCount "15"]
>>>>>>[EventDate "2001.08.20"]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Bd3 Ngf6 6. Ng5 h6 7. Ne6 fxe6 8.
>>>>>>Bg6#
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Is there book hole in MCP8 or cannot it see mate in 1 ???!!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Jouni
>>>>>
>>>>>I have no idea. I checked it now. There must have been s.th. wrong in the
>>>>>opening book setup. Tournament moves are 6...e7-e6 (d) and 6...Nd7-b6 (e) so
>>>>>those moves will be played preferably. The other book moves, c6-c5, Qd8-b6,
>>>>>h7-h6, Qd8-c7, e7-e5 and g7-g6 have no flag for tournament move.
>>>>>
>>>>>And after 7.Ne6 MCP starts to calculate and certainly does not play that ugly
>>>>>fxe6??. After 5 minutes on my K7-600 best move is Qa5 with -0.09/11.
>>>>>
>>>>>I suspect setup problem or autoplayer-influence.
>>>>>This leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. How many other games have been played
>>>>>with a wrong setup? I know that your example is a very tough one, but who can
>>>>>tell that the source for this did not harm some other programs in some other
>>>>>games?
>>>>
>>>>But I think/hope, that in 100s of games the effect of some erroneous ones is
>>>>unimportant! And probably effecting all engines as well...
>>>>
>>>>Jouni
>>>
>>>Maybe it effects Dos programs more than windows programs.
>>>I do not know.
>>>
>>>I remember that Ed found also problems with Rebel and Mchess.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>But all such happenings MUST be searched out and replayed, if that is possible.
>>S.Taylor
>
>That´s exactly the problem. Who shall decide, which games have to be replayed
>and which not?
>
>Helmut

Any responsible chess expert. Someone who is an expert at chess (higher elo the
better) can know clearly (if he is an experienced computer program consumer) if
something a computer did was obviously not from the correct use of the programs,
in which case it should be replayed.
S.Taylor



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