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Subject: Re: Which move our programs play in this old position?

Author: Jari Huikari

Date: 03:36:29 04/09/02

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On April 09, 2002 at 06:25:56, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 09, 2002 at 03:51:08, Jari Huikari wrote:
>
>>This is from the famous game Duchess-Kaissa:
>>
>>[D]Q5k1/4rp1p/1p1q1bp1/1B1n4/3Pp1P1/4B2P/PP3P2/2R3K1 b - -
>>
>>Black played then surprisingly ...Re8. It had a good reason for that,
>>because it had calculated that if black plays ..Kg7 white could
>>respond Qf8+ and mate in four moves after that...

>Almost every program is going to play Re8.
>My program changes it's mind at depth 4 from Kg7 to Re8.

Yes. But in this kind of situation it would be better to
play Kg7 and hope that opponent would miss the mating line.

I thought that maybe some programs would play the "wrong"
move instead.

Kaissa resigned right after loosing the rook.


					Jari



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