Author: Mark Young
Date: 05:20:24 08/27/98
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On August 26, 1998 at 15:47:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 26, 1998 at 15:29:15, blass uri wrote: > >>On August 26, 1998 at 13:54:17, blass uri wrote: >> >>>On August 26, 1998 at 12:41:23, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >>> >>>>From a chessplayer's perspective, this was a very interesting and exciting game. >>>> I watched it on ICC and found the comments of the observers [about 50 of them] >>>>to be very interesting. There were several masters [2500+] commenting on the >>>>game. >>>> >>>>From a chess engine designer's perspective, what was learned here about Junior >>>>and about chess engines in general? >>>> >>>>What were the most "revealing" moves from a engine design perspective? >>>> >>>>Anybody know when Junior was out of it's opening book? >>>> >>>>[Sorry I don't have answers here.] >>>what is the result of the game? >>>I looked at www.chessclub.com but I do not know where to find the games >>>They suggest me to register but I do not want to play there. >>>I want only to see the game. >>> >>>Uri > > >You can log on and lookat junior50... I suppose Amir saved the game >in the liblist for that id, I am not sure. > >A quick description: > > Junior was white, and had a comfortable position until it played Rh5, >to start something against the black king. The rook was out of place >there and this cost Junior a pawn 10 moves or so later. This was a interesting game even with the error Rh5?! I tested some of the top programs to see how they would have played this position at move 19 white. Nimzo98 Rh5 -.09 3:00, Rh5 -.07 10:00> Junior 4.6 Rb1 +.08 3:00> Rebel 9 Rb1 +.02 3:00> Fritz 5 Ne4 -.16 3:00> MCP7 Ne4 -.60 3:00> CG5 Rg5 0.00 3:00> Only Nimzo 98 stuck with Rh5. The GM saw this, >and went about the business of piling up on white's pawns at c4/d4 and >won one. The the GM overlooked a fairly simple tactic (to a program) >where Junior played g4 and found a perpetual check. It took Crafty about >15 seconds to spot this, so I assume Junior saw it almost instantly as well. > >The game ended in a draw... early white looked better, later black was >probably winning, then the g4 shot that led to the perpetual. Next game at >around 9am CDT tomorrow...
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