Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:44:59 03/12/02
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On March 11, 2002 at 23:08:48, Fernando Villegas wrote: >This sunday, around 9:30 in the night, IM Pablo Toloza did a good show of his >acute tactical awareness coming to my home five minutes before the dinner was >served. Yes, in Chile as in the rest of Latin America, the custom is going to >dinne very late, some times not before eleven. Pablo was welcome; he is a >mundane and nice kind of guy that likes, as he say, "to weep his lips" with a >couple of wine glasses and even somewhat more if the brand is of his taste and >the talk is good. And although his real work is as a computer expert consultor >in an electric engineering company, he likes to perform as well as my personal >"computer guru" when the neccesary fixes surpass my modest knowledge. This time >the iron to fix was an Iomega Zip unit, something that was a marvel only two >years ago, but it is by now, with plenty CD burning devices available, a piece >of museum. But I need it as much I have some preciate software and docs in half >a dozen zip disks. >Sooner Pablo discovered my Palm unit and asked if I had some chess progam into >it. "Of course" I said, "I have Tiger". >He winkled and said he knew Genius and that he thought well of it. "Just low >expert level at most, but good enough for such a tiny device". I responded that >perhaps Tiger could do better than that. He smiled. "You always consider your >programs as the very best... well, put your Palm where the board is..." >So I did and for giving to the ocasion an extra clout I put on the desk my very >best board, a wonderful crafted piece of wood bought to Steven in the ocassion >of one of his sales-out. > >And so the following game was played. The time accorded was five minutes, to the >finish. For a program running in a normal PC, that's is equal to suicide for the >human side, but Pablo knew well that Tiger, performing in the very slow >processor of Palm, could not search more than 250 moves per second in the ending >and a lot less in middlegame. So, for an IM with long experience in the killing >blitz played in the main Chess Club of Santiago, - a somewhat bohemian place >similar to a room for playing billiards, full of cigar smoke and agressive >people crowding over every board to make despective comments in loud voice, a >real nightmaret- it was a chance to crush the beast to the utmost. >And the game begun. Tiger was favoured with an overclocked processor running at >32 Mhz and Pablo was overclocked with a new ration of one of my best cabernets. > > >[Site: my home in Santiago >[Date "2002.03.11"] >[Round 1 >[White IM Pablo Toloza >[Black "Chess Tiger"] >5 minutes the full game. > >1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 c5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. e3 Nc6 7. Bd3 Be7 >8. O-O O-O > >"...well, until now at least this thing knows something of opennings" said >Pablo. > >9. Re1 cxd4 10. exd4 Ncb4 11. Bb1 Bd7 12. Ne5 Rc8 13. Bd2 Qc7 > > >At this stage Pablo was very confident. "Not a very imaginative playing" >commented. "And yours?" I asked. "Oh" he answered, "I am just just toying with >him..." > >14. a3 Nxc3 15. bxc3 Nd5 16. c4 Nf6 17. Bf4 b6??? > >An horrible move, but there it was in the screen. In the screen, also, appeared >the following data: Tiger was looking only 3 plys deep. He was also taking only >some seconds to decide a move. I thought, for a moment, to declare the game >already lost and give the full point to Pablo, but I resisted. I had some hopes. >Pablo just laughed. He asked another ration of you know what. I served also one >for myself. 3 plies are enough to avoid the blunder b6 (at least for my stupid program) b6 is the first ply Ng6 is the second ply Bd6 is the third ply and the rest is qsearch. Maybe palm tiger prune Ng6 because the square g6 is threatened by 2 pawns With some extensions avoiding b6 may be only 2 ply because Ng6 is a good candidate for extension thanks for the fact that it threats the queen and the rook and not only for pruning. Uri
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