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

Author: Eye Witness

Date: 17:48:50 01/11/03

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On January 11, 2003 at 19:05:37, John Merlino wrote:

>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.


Really,  i'm surprised at that i think that's where CM makes up for it's other
weakneses is its uniquely strong understanding of the initiative, i think it has
a better grasp of it than any other program.  If it wasn't for that i think the
king engine would not be the monster that it is.
>jm



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