Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 13:56:10 10/21/02
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On October 21, 2002 at 16:16:11, John Merlino wrote: >Interestingly enough, the default Chessmaster personality, on my P4-2.66, does >NOT find this mate (at least, not in a reasonable amount of time). This leads >me to believe that Johan, once again, is using "experimental" settings of some >kind. > >Did Johan actually announce Mate in the tournament? 24...Bf8 leads to an easy >mate to find, but it seems that other moves (that also lose, such as 24...Qe4) >might not.... This is strange. According to Johan he is playing with the same version as in CM9000, but with some minor unsignificant changes. The King played Bxh6 instantly announcing Mate in 13, although it probably had been pondering for quite a few minutes. >>Bxh6 wins instantly, Rxa6 also, but with a move more. Most >>engines find it quickly, then lose it, but finally find it >>again. > >Well, I can truthfully say that CM9000 also does this same thing. It finds Bxh6 >AND loses it in less than one second, and doesn't find it again until 9:16! Up >until then, the difference in eval between that move and Be3 is about 0.3.... Johan himself spotted the move instantly, and got annoyed no end that The King didn't spot it. The King wetware was way faster than The King software here :) Sjeng finds and keeps it in 2 mins, but unfortunately, I was on the wrong side of the board. -- GCP
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