Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 11:24:38 10/06/02
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On October 06, 2002 at 14:16:49, Roy Eassa wrote:
>On October 06, 2002 at 13:56:09, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>[Event "Kramnik,V vs Deep Fritz 120'/40"]
>>[Site "Bahrain"]
>>[Date "2002.10.06"]
>>[Round "2"]
>>[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
>>[Black "Deep Fritz"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[ECO "D27"]
>>[WhiteElo "2800"]
>>[PlyCount "113"]
>>
>>{Comments: Kurt Utzinger, Switzerland} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 {
>>Deep Fritz on Compaq P3/8*900 MHz} 2... dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6.
>>O-O a6 7. dxc5 Qxd1 8. Rxd1 Bxc5 9. Kf1 b5 10. Be2 Bb7 11. Nbd2 Nbd7 12. Nb3
>>Bf8 {An unbelievable and strange move. Nobody would think that it was played
>>by one of the strongest chess programs of the world on super fast hardware.
>>For me, 12...Bf8 looks like a hash table collision.}
>
>
>Except that several other programs also choose that move!
>
>I think the "reasoning" is that ...Be7 is exposed and the g7 pawn is undefended
>after Nfd4 e5 Nf5, whereas ...Bf8 does not have these two faults. I'm not
>agreeing, just stating the probable reasoning of the computers.
If you are right, then it stands worse with computer programs than I had
imagined.
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