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Subject: Re: Interesting sacrifice by SmarThink against Drexel 19.72

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 12:24:49 06/06/03

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On June 06, 2003 at 14:00:00, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On June 06, 2003 at 12:24:13, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>Just set up SmarThink 0.16b++ with Winboard adapter in Fritz 8 and played a 3+2
>>Blitzgame to test if it works.
>>
>>[D] r1r2bk1/2R5/1p4np/pq1Pp1p1/4Pp2/1N3P2/1PQ2BPP/2R3K1 b - - 0 26
>>
>>26...Qxb3??
>>
>>I was quite shocked before I took back.
>>Ok, the position was already a bit annoying for black but was this really
>>necessary??
>>I hope this wont happen with the expected 0.17 version.
>>BTW, I can not reproduce it in Analyse mode but it just happened right now on
>>Athlon XP 2000+.
>>
>
>I never heard of Drexel 19.72,

This is a buggy version :)

but SmarThink is playing a la par on longer time
>control against Harcs8 and you can probably play at least 4 to 8 games against
>Junior 7 or Ruffian 1.0.1 under Fritz 8 GUI and notice how strong SmarThink
>really is.
>
>Pichard

Yes, it is quite sucessful against several freebies.
Ruffian seems to score slightly better against other freeware programs though.
I dont think it is already on a level with Ruffian.
Maybe the expected UCI version will be.

Michael



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