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Subject: Re: Testing with List. What's wrong?

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 19:41:50 08/27/02

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On August 27, 2002 at 22:26:52, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On August 27, 2002 at 22:12:55, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>I have downloaded List 4.61 and have played a few games against Chessmaster 9000
>>with it. The time control was G/10 with pondering off, on a PIII-600.
>>
>>I think there must be something wrong, because CM9000 checkmated List in the
>>first game in 19 moves:
>>
>>[Event ""]
>>[Site ""]
>>[Date "2002.8.27"]
>>[Round ""]
>>[White "List"]
>>[Black "Chessmaster"]
>>[TimeControl "600"]
>>[Result "0-1"]
>>
>>1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qd1 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Bd2 O-O 7.f3 d5 8.Bg5
>>Qe7 9.Bxf6 Qxf6 10.exd5 Bxc3+ 11.bxc3 Qxc3+ 12.Kf2 Qc5+ 13.Kg3 Ne7 14.c4
>>Nf5+ 15.Kf4 Qe3+ 16.Kg4 Nd6+ 17.Kh4 Qh6+ 18.Kg3 Nf5+ 19.Kg4 Qh4# 0-1
>>
>>In the second game, List gave up its queen early and was mated in 27 moves:
>>
>>[Event ""]
>>[Site ""]
>>[Date "2002.8.27"]
>>[Round ""]
>>[White "Chessmaster"]
>>[Black "List"]
>>[TimeControl "600"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>
>>1.e4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.exd5 Nxd5 4.Bc4 e6 5.d4 Bb4 6.Ne2 Nb6 7.Bd3 c5 8.O-O
>>O-O 9.Bf4 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Qxd4 11.Bxh7+ Kxh7 12.Qxd4 Nc6 13.Qd3+ Kg8 14.a3
>>Be7 15.Bc7 Nd7 16.Rad1 Nc5 17.Qe3 Bd7 18.Bd6 Bxd6 19.Rxd6 b6 20.b4 e5
>>21.bxc5 Nb8 22.Nd5 bxc5 23.Ne7+ Kh7 24.Qg5 g6 25.Rxg6 fxg6 26.Qxg6+ Kh8
>>27.Qh6# 1-0
>>
>>In general, List only seems to be thinking for a split second on its moves, only
>>up to depth 3 at most.
>>
>>Is there some special INI setting I don't know about?
>>
>>jm
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>Sorry, I couldn't resist.

LOL good one :)



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