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Subject: Re: Moronic program wins against CM8000!

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 07:10:43 12/18/01

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On December 17, 2001 at 14:53:38, John Merlino wrote:

>I have looked at this game and a few items are rather odd.
>
>Firstly, Chezzz played a great game, no doubt about that, especially if it is as
>weak as you claim. ;-)
>
>However, I believe that this game was actually human-operated, which Chessmaster
>only making MOST of the moves, rather than TheKing.exe running under Winboard.
>Here are my findings:
>
>-- The first eleven moves are straight out of CM8000's book, which would be
>impossible if TheKing were "in charge", because there is no way for TheKing to
>access the CM8000 opening book under Winboard.
>
>-- I don't think any of the questionable moves in the game were due to mouse
>slips, since the suggested move by CM8000 is usually unrelated to the move
>played.
>
>-- There are several moves which I cannot get TheKing to reproduce at all, and
>most of them are near the end of the game.
>
>Specifically, 11...Qe6, 24...c6, 45...Rf8, 46...Re8??, 51...Qxe3, 52...Bf6?? and
>53...Ra8 (although the game was certainly lost by that point, so I suspect the
>operator just lost patience).

24... c6 does appear according to the analysis posted.

>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
><snip>
>0:22	3/8	-1.05	1249195		24...c6 25.e4 Bd3 26.Qf2 Qe6 27.Nc1
>					Bxf1 28.Nxb3 Bxg2+ 29.Qxg2 Rxb3

When I checked the game against CM8000 I got as far as forty something, where
the only discrepancy was 11...Qe6. Maybe it was an improved book or a manual
bookmove from some chess encyclopedia. Either way, Chezzz did a really good job
of hanging on and leveling the game.

The low rating of the opponent could suggest some experimentation compared to a
clean CM8000 account.

Regards,
Mogens



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