Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 02:19:48 02/06/03
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Thanks for the test! On February 05, 2003 at 18:56:11, Manfred Meiler wrote: >On February 05, 2003 at 17:36:52, Ingo Althofer wrote: >>in the mid-80's there was this famous chess computer >>SUPER CONSTELLATION by Dave Kittinger who played >>all sorts of nice sacrifices. >>Does someone still have such a machine? ... > >the "Super Conny" I possess no more but only the newer Super Forte C (with the >same famous PSH algos ?) somewhere in my cellar :-) Unfortunately, Super-Forte-C played already a much more solid chess than Super-Conny... >Instead of this chess computer I tried the MCS engine WChess 2000 by Dave >Kittinger (on PIII-800, 64 MB hash, under Chess Assistant 6.1). >After 40 minutes and complete analysis of depth 12: > >[+0.34] d=6 10...Bc7 11.Ng3 Qd6 12.Bd2 Nbd7 13.Bf5 (0:00.01) >[+0.38] d=6 10...Nbd7 11.Bf5 (0:00.01) >[+0.42] d=6 10...Bxh2 11.Kxh2 (0:00.02) >[+0.50] d=6 10...Bxh2 11.Kxh2 Ng4 12.Kg3 Qg5 13.Bxh7 Kh8 14.f4 (0:00.02) >[+0.38] d=7 10...Bxh2 11.Kxh2 Ng4 12.Kg3 Qg5 13.Bxh7 Kh8 14.f4 Qh5 (0:00.02) Having in mind that old Super-Conny ran on a C-6502 processor with 3.6 MHz, these lines from WChess indicate the possibility that Super-Conny might have played 10... Bxh2 after about three minutes. By the way, my Fritz 6 proposed the sacrifice Bxh2+ already in move 9 (instead of Junior's 9... c6)! Ingo Althofer.
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