Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 19:42:31 11/17/02
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On November 17, 2002 at 14:30:38, Alastair Scott wrote:
>On November 17, 2002 at 13:25:30, Jose Gonzalbez wrote:
>
>> Because my CD of Rebel9 doesnt work in my Pentium 4 i finally decided to
>>buy the last Rebel version, but what can i do with other "historical" programs
>>like the MChess of Marty Hirsch?. MChess only displays a security error "This
>>program is not authorized on this disk". Obviously, I changed my PC since I
>>originally installed MChess a lot of years ago... Is there a way to reinstalled
>>the program in my new computer?
>> Other programs that doesnt work in my system (sigh...): Powerchess
>>(Kittinger's WChess), Rex, Mirage...
>
>I have a few old chess programs kicking around; as some of these programs used,
>in retrospect, highly dubious and fragile copy-protection mechanisms - special
>sectors written to the hard disk, 'key files' on floppy disk not visible to
>normal installations of DOS and so on - it's quite possible they will not work
>on modern machines and OSes. (I can't test as I moved to Linux).
>
>Anyway, things move on. I was amused by this post
>
>http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/nolot/nolot1.txt
>
>No '... weeks or months ...' now!
>
>Alastair
here's the text for nolot #1 from your link:
"
# Position: 1
# Move: W
r...qb.k Kasparov-Karpov, 20th game 1990
.b....p. 26.Nxh6!! c3 (26... Rxh6!? is not sufficient:
p..pr..p 27.Nxd6 Qh5 (best) 28.Rg5! Qxd1 29.Nf7+ Kg8 30.Nxh6+ Kh8
...n.... 31.Rxd1 c3 32.Nf7+ Kg8 33.Bg6! Nf4 34.Bxc3 Nxg6 35.Bxb4 Kxf7
Pnp.N.N. 36.Rd7+ Kf6 37.Rxg6+ Kxg6 38.Rxb7 +-) 27.Nf5! cxb2
......RP 28.Qg4 Bc8 (if 28... g6!? 29.Kh2! wins : 29...Qd7 30.Nh4 Bc6
.B...PP. 31.Nc5! dxc 32.Rxe6 Nf6 33.Nxg6+ Kg7 34.Qg5 Nbd5 35.Ne5 Kh8
.B.QR.K. 36.Nxd7 +-) 29.Qh4+ Rh6 30.Nxh6 gxh6 31.Kh2! Qe5 32.Ng5 Qf6
33.Re8 Bf5 34.Qxh6 (pretty, but there was a mate in 6 :
34.Nf7+ Qxf7 35.Qxh6+ Bh7 36.Rxa8 Nf6 37.Rxf8 Qxf8 38.Qxf8+ Ng8
39.Qg7#) 34...Qxh6 35.Nf7+ Kh7 36.Bxf5+ Qg6 37.Bxg6+ Kg7 38.Rxa8 Be7
39.Rb8 a5 40.Be4+ Kxf7 41.Bxd5+ 1-0
A very deep combimation, that Tasc R30 or Genius 2 running on a pentium would
take between a few months and a few years to find.
The best Novag computer, the Diablo 68000, finds 26.Nxh6 after 7 months
and a half (Pierre Nolot has let it run on the position for 14 months and one
day, until a power failure stopped an analysis of over 80 000 000 000 nodes!)
but for wrong reasons : it evaluates white's position as inferior and
thinks this move would enable it to draw."
here;s the position
[d]r3qb1k/1b4p1/p2pr2p/3n4/Pnp1N1N1/6RP/1B3PP1/1B1QR1K1 w - - bm Nxh6;
enter the position in your favorite engine -- and play the winning line above ..
it's incorrect - Nxd6 loses to the simple Rxe1 ...so no chess program will find
the winning line above ..actual game went as follows with 27.Nf5 ..I like
Kasparov move better ;>)
Kasparov,G (2800) - Karpov,A (2730) [C92]
Wch35-KK5 Lyon-New York (20), 1990
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3
Bb7 10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.a4 h6 13.Bc2 exd4 14.cxd4 Nb4 15.Bb1 c5 16.d5 Nd7
17.Ra3 f5 18.Rae3 Nf6 19.Nh2 Kh8 20.b3 bxa4 21.bxa4 c4 22.Bb2 fxe4 23.Nxe4 Nfxd5
24.Rg3 Re6 25.Ng4 Qe8 26.Nxh6 c3 27.Nf5 cxb2 28.Qg4 Bc8 29.Qh4+ Rh6 30.Nxh6 gxh6
31.Kh2 Qe5 32.Ng5 Qf6 33.Re8 Bf5 34.Qxh6+ Qxh6 35.Nf7+ Kh7 36.Bxf5+ Qg6 37.Bxg6+
Kg7 38.Rxa8 Be7 39.Rb8 a5 40.Be4+ Kxf7 41.Bxd5+ 1-0
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