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Subject: Re: Looking for a position

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:28:46 12/02/01

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On December 02, 2001 at 13:13:50, Aaron Tay wrote:

>Hi I am looking for this position.
>
>I think it's a game between 2 computer chess programs in the 1970s. Where one
>side played a completely losing move blundering away a "rook"? for no reason.
>
>Everyone thought it was a bug (including watching GMs) untill the log files
>revealed that the program actually saw that it's opponent had a hard to see
>winning forced tactic that would cause it to lose more than a "rook".
>
>Of course, a human player would play a normal move and hope that his opponent
>missed that tactic.
>
>Does anyone know which position I'm talking about?

[D]Q5k1/4rp1p/p2q1bp1/1B1n4/3Pp1P1/4B2P/PP3P2/2R3K1 b - - 0 1

Duchess-Kaissa, Toronto 1977

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GCP



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