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Subject: Re: How many programs would play strong like Karpov did today ?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 16:05:37 01/11/03

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On January 11, 2003 at 17:37:17, Eye Witness wrote:

>
>>>
>>>Off course,d5 is a poison pawn.
>>>
>>>Not a easy job for todays programs!
>>>
>>>[Event "GMA"]
>>>[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
>>>[Date "2003.01.11"]
>>>[Round "1"]
>>>[White "Krasenkow,M"]
>>>[Black "Karpov,An"]
>>>[Result "0-1"]
>>>[WhiteElo "2633"]
>>>[BlackElo "2688"]
>>>[EventDate "2003.01.11"]
>>>[ECO "E12"]
>>>
>>>1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. c4 b6 4. Nc3 Bb7 5. a3 d5 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Qc2 Nxc3
>>>8. bxc3 Nd7 9. e4 c5 10. Bf4 Be7 11. d5 exd5 12. exd5 O-O 13. Rd1 Re8 14.
>>>Be2 c4 15. O-O Bxa3 16. Bxc4 Qf6 17. Ng5 Nf8 18. g3 h6 19. Ne4 Qf5 20. f3
>>>Ng6 21. Bc7 Rac8 22. Bb5 Rxc7 23. Bxe8 Bxd5 24. Nf6+ Qxf6 25. Rxd5 Rxc3 26.
>>>Qe4 Bc5+ 27. Kg2 Re3 28. Qa4 Re2+ 29. Kh1 Re1 0-1
>>>
>>>TL
>>
>>Chessmaster 9000, on a P3-733, goes with the aggressive 12...g5 all the way:
>
>Chessmaster always does seem to go for unusualy dynamic positions, seems to
>understand the initiative better than most other programs.  Does De koening ever
>mention what he does in order to develope this unique style and is it on
>purpose?

I don't know any of the specifics on what he attempts to model, but I would
certainly assume that it is all on purpose! However, I'm pretty sure I recall a
discussion in which he said that he attempted to model "initiative", but was
unsuccessful.

jm




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