Author: Tony Werten
Date: 23:39:00 10/21/02
Go up one level in this thread
On October 21, 2002 at 18:24:27, John Merlino wrote: >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.... He had a choice: take the draw or go for the win with the risk of running out of time. Since the timing had been very bad he choose for the draw. ( With some subtile pressure from his opponent "if you want a draw you should offer it now because I'm not sure I will take it in a few moves" ) Tony > >p.p.s. And congratulations on beating Diep!
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.