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Subject: Re: Position

Author: John Merlino

Date: 12:52:38 06/18/02

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On June 18, 2002 at 15:51:14, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 18, 2002 at 15:44:02, David Hanley wrote:
>
>>This is a famous game, and Qxf4 was the move played.  It's actually not that
>>hard for a decent human tactician, i wonder why the comps struggle with it.
>
>The other checkmate is one move farther away, but it has more forcing moves or
>some other extension magnet that makes it look more attractive.  In either case,
>the program will checkmate.
>
>It's only a question of beauty (an optimal winning move verses a nearly optimal
>winning move).

Johan will be happy to hear that his program is "the most optimally beautiful".
;-)

jm



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