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Subject: Re: 2 Testpositions from Leiden

Author: John Merlino

Date: 15:24:27 10/21/02

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On October 21, 2002 at 17:50:16, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On October 21, 2002 at 17:36:06, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>Fascinating. I'll be sure to ask Johan about it. Are you sure you are not off
>>by one move? If, after Bxh6, Sjeng played Bf8, then my CM9000 needs only 21
>>seconds to (coincidentally?) announce Mate in 13. So, my suspicion (which, of
>>course, could be totally wrong) is that TheKing had already played Bxh6, and
>>was pondering on Bf8, which Sjeng played. That WOULD result in an instant
>>announcement of Mate in 13, with Qg4+.
>
>You're making me doubt :)
>
>The game log shows that after Qg4 Sjeng saw mate in the selective
>search and thus announced 'Lost in at most 250' :)  I thought The
>King saw it another move before us, which would have been Bxh6.
>
>But I'm not sure...
>
>--
>GCP

Well, maybe it saw it a HALF-move before you? To further my suspicion, it is
almost certain the TheKing would have been pondering on Bf8, as it takes quite
some time to see that Qe4 is "better", and probably would not have had time to
do so during the game.

I like that announcement, BTW. I'll be sure to use that in the next OTB game I
play....

jm

p.s. What I want to know is how Djenghis drew ANYBODY. It sure played some poor
chess in the earlier rounds.... Well, I just looked at the game, and Djenghis
actually gave away the win.... Sad....

p.p.s. And congratulations on beating Diep!



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