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Subject: Re: A strange coincidence

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:03:21 10/17/02

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On October 17, 2002 at 16:01:11, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>[D]r1bqkb1r/1ppp1ppp/p1n5/4p3/B3n3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQR1K1 b kq - 0 6
>
>The standard move is d4 here, but my thing wants to play Re1 and
>thinks it's quite a bit better.
>
>My book has nearly no games with this, so I looked in the full
>database to see whether this has been played before. It has,
>very occasionally. Mostly by lesser players, which isn't exactly
>encouraging. However, the last 2 games with this in my database
>were:
>
>PARSOS-IKARUS, WCCC 2002 Maastricht
>XINIX-IKARUS, WCCC 2002 Maastricht
>
>To add to the coincidence, even though Ikarus was involved in
>both games, the Re1 move is whites. So this means that both
>ParSOS and XiniX chose to play the 'odd' move at the exact
>same tournament.

E:\PROGRA~3\winboard\ruffian>ruffian -h 300M -t 999 -T re1.epd
Hash size 314572800
Ruffian 1.0.1
feature done=0
Loading configuration: ruffian.cfg
Warning: EGTB_HASH_SIZE changed, default=1048576, newvalue=8388608
Logfile: Thu Oct 17 16:42:45 2002
Total hash size 300M
Initializing tablebases: /programme/winboard/nalimov
Testing re1.epd, 999 seconds, extra ply 3
Testing: test 1   Solution: Bb5
  r1bqkb1r/1ppp1ppp/p1n5/4p3/B3n3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQ1RK1 w kq -
  Depth   Time  Score    Best line
   9/21   2.31   0.61    Re1 Nf6 d4 b5 Bb3 Bb4 c3 Bd6 Bg5
   9-->   3.75   0.61    Re1 Nf6 d4 b5 Bb3 Bb4 c3 Bd6 Bg5
  10/23   6.30   0.74    Re1 Nf6 Nxe5 Be7 Qe2 Kf8 Nc3 Nxe5 Qxe5 d6 Qd4
  10-->   9.96   0.74    Re1 Nf6 Nxe5 Be7 Qe2 Kf8 Nc3 Nxe5 Qxe5 d6 Qd4
  11/26  23.24     --    Re1
  11/26  25.83   0.23    Re1 Nc5 Bxc6 dxc6 d4 Ne6 dxe5 Bd7 Nd4 Nxd4 Qxd4 Be7
  11/26  59.53   x.xx    d4
  11/26   1:17   0.25    d4 exd4 Re1 f5 Nxd4 Nxd4 Qxd4 Kf7 Qd5+ Kg6 g4 Nd6
                         gxf5+ Kh5
  11-->   1:32   0.25    d4 exd4 Re1 f5 Nxd4 Nxd4 Qxd4 Kf7 Qd5+ Kg6 g4 Nd6
                         gxf5+ Kh5
  12/29   2:47   0.49    d4 b5 Bb3 d5 Nxe5 Nxe5 dxe5 Be6 Qh5 g6 Qf3 f6 Bf4
  12-->   3:28   0.49    d4 b5 Bb3 d5 Nxe5 Nxe5 dxe5 Be6 Qh5 g6 Qf3 f6 Bf4
  13/31   4:27   0.19    d4 b5 Bb3 d5 Nxe5 Nxe5 dxe5 Be6 Be3 Be7 f3 Nc5 Nc3
                         Nxb3 axb3
  13-->   7:33   0.19    d4 b5 Bb3 d5 Nxe5 Nxe5 dxe5 Be6 Be3 Be7 f3 Nc5 Nc3
                         Nxb3 axb3
  14/35  12:55   0.45    d4 Be7 Re1 Nd6 dxe5 Nf5 Qd3 g6 Nc3 b5 Bb3 O-O
  14-->  15:31   0.45    d4 Be7 Re1 Nd6 dxe5 Nf5 Qd3 g6 Nc3 b5 Bb3 O-O
  15...  15:31   1/25    d4

Time: 16:39, cpu 96.56%, nodes 473551302, nps 474006
Hash: 128M, used 99%, hits 22%
EGTB: probs 0, hits 0

Best move: d4 (0.45)  Not solved (0/1)

Summery: 0/1



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