Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 11:37:25 10/06/02
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On October 06, 2002 at 14:24:38, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>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.
Well, my Fritz 7.006 also liked ...Bf8 (about equally to ...Be7) and so did
Pocket Fritz (i.e., Shredder) if I recall correctly. And on ICC, some people
mentioned that other programs also considered ...Bf8 about equal to ...Be7.
There was speculation that Black would fianchetto, although that looked ugly to
me.
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