Author: Uri Blass
Date: 17:54:41 06/26/03
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On June 26, 2003 at 19:33:31, Albert Silver wrote: >On June 26, 2003 at 18:36:35, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On June 26, 2003 at 18:28:55, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >> >>>On June 26, 2003 at 17:54:35, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote: >>> >>>>[D]3rr3/6k1/2p3P1/1p2nP1p/pP2p1P1/P1B1Nb1B/2P2K2/5R2 b >>>>In the above diagram Deeper Blue made a huge mistake by playing 39...Kh6 and >>>>lost.Commercial programs do not play this move but choose 39...h4 which draws. >>>>Amazingly no annotation to this game mentions this as the loosing mistake ;but >>>>they concentrate on moves like 34...Qxf1+ as mistakes.I Let Chessmaster 9000 >>>>at 1.8 GHZ play both sides at 999 seconds per move for both sides after 39...h4 >>>>and the result is a draw.Amazingly 39....h4! is played by the programs at very >>>>low depths also.Deeper Blue must be inferior to current Commercials for turning >>>>a Draw into a loss by playing 39....Kh6? 200 million positions per second and >>>>still it does not see 39...h4.I think Deeper Blue was at least 200 Elo points >>>>weaker than the current Commercials.HERE IS CHESSMASTER 9000 autoplay at 999sec >>>>per move at 1.8 GHZ after 39.....h4! >>>>CHESSMASTER 9000:39...h4 40.Ng2 Kf8 41.Nxh4 Bd1 42.f6 Bxc2 43.g7+ Kf7 44.Nf5 >>>>Kxf6 45.g5+ Kxg5 46.Bxe5 Rxe5 47.Rg1+ Kf6 48.g8=Q Rxg8 49.Rxg8 Rxf5+ 50.Bxf5 >>>>Kxf5 AND in this Drawn position the Computer(CM 9000) moves pieces back and >>>>forth for another 30 moves which I do not list without any advantage for any >>>>side.SO I THINK AFTER 39.....h4! IT IS A DRAW. >>> >>>Who says that this line played by Chessmaster is by any means the best one from >>>white's perspective? You can't claim this is a drawing move based on one game >>>played by one engine against itself. There's no real analysis to back this up. >> >>one game of engine against itself is better than no analysis. >> >>If you claim that it is not a draw then you need to show a way to beat >>chessmaster. > >I don't think that would be so hard since I think the way CM handled white's >position was crap (no offense, Johann). It gives up *all* white's kingside pawns >to end up in a dead drawn position. The whole line, which could be the effect of >some kind of horizon effect, looked very stupid with all due respect. > > Albert I did not analyze the position but I believe that if the passed pawns can be used then it is something that programs can usually see by a long search. The question is if there was an alternative to make progress(unfortunately I am too busy in other things to analyze the game). Uri
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