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Subject: Re: FRC_Baron103 vs Patzer Rated around 1800

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 13:51:11 07/21/03

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On July 20, 2003 at 18:29:17, Richard Pijl wrote:

>On July 20, 2003 at 13:58:19, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>On July 20, 2003 at 04:57:21, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>I consider myself a patzer rated around 1800, but I have NOT ever played a
>>>single FRC game against any FRC Program. I have read 8 books of chess in the
>>>last 24 months which probably has increased my rating by 200 points, but
>>>FRC_Baron 103 should be rated higher than 2000 on an Athlon 1200 GHz.
>>>
>>>[Event "Computer Schach Partie"]
>>>[Site "My Home"]
>>>[Date "2003.07.20"]
>>>[Round "1"]
>>>[White "Jorge Pichard"]
>>>[Black "FRC_Baron103 Athlon 1.2 GHz"]
>>>[Result "1-0"]
>>>[Time "07:28:20"]
>>>[TimeControl "40/1200:40/1200:40/1200"]
>>>[SetUp "1"]
>>>[FEN "rkbbnrnq/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RKBBNRNQ w KQkq - "]
>>>
>>>1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Ne2 f5 4.exf5 Bxf5 5.Nf3 c6 6.Bf4 Bb6 7.Be3 Nc7 8.Ng3 Be6
>>>9.Ng5 Bxd4 10.Bxd4 Qxd4 11.Nxe6 Nxe6 12.Qg1 Nc5 13.c3 Qd2 14.Bc2 Nf6 15.Rd1 Qh6
>>>16.Qe1 Qxh2 17.Qxe7 Ncd7 18.Qxd6+ Kc8 19.Be4 Qh6 20.a4 Qg5 21.Bxc6 bxc6 22.Qxc6+
>>>Kb8 23.Ra3 Qf4 24.Rb3+ Nb6 25.Rxb6+ axb6  {Black resigns} 1-0
>>
>>There is something seriously wrong with your setup. The Baron would not play the
>>move 16...Qxh2?? on my machine, even in bullet games.
>
>This called for a check from my side. In my setup the Baron (FRC Version) does
>play 16..Qxh2. Michael, did you also use the FRC version?

I used Baron 1.0.2. I didnt look at the game in detail and thought castling is
not possible anymore because Baron did not castle after 17.Qxe7.

>But I'm puzzled about the next move of the Baron as it wants to play 17..O-O-O!
>here instead of 17..Ncd7? (yes, FRC castling saves the day, moving the rook from
>a8 to d8 and the king from b8 to c8).
>However, the Baron 'standard' does play Ncd7 here as it obviously doesn't know
>about FRC Castling.
>As the FRC Baron scores the position after 17..O-O-O! as 1.83 for black after
>somewhat more than a minute and the position after 17..Ncd7 as 0.22 for white
>something is wrong here.
>Jorge, do you by any chance have some logfiles to examine?
>
>bye,
>Richard.
>
>>
>>>
>>>This was the final Position in which FRC_Baron Resigned.
>>>[D]rk3r2/7p/1pQ2np1/8/P4q2/2P3N1/1P3PP1/1K1R4 b - -
>>>
>>>I was planning to make these forceful moves if FRC_Baron decided to continue:
>>>26.Qxb6+ Kc8 27.Qc6+ Kb8 28.Rd4! Qc7 29.Rb4+ Kc8 30.Qxa8+ Qxf8 winning by a rook
>>>and three pawns!



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