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Subject: Re: My game against Fritz 8 :) Comments welcome

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 12:27:07 08/03/03

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On August 03, 2003 at 13:54:29, Mihaly Szalai wrote:

>Nice game!
>I find it strange that Fritz 8 played 16.- Nb6?,
>on my Celeron 1.7 Ghz machine it takes 40 seconds
>to see this is a bad move.

I think 10 ... h6? is probably the big mistake. Trying three strong engines:

Ruffian 1.0.1: g6 immediately, Kh8 after 2 seconds, h6 after 12 seconds, Kh8
after 62 seconds (and stays there).

Aristarch 4.2.1: h6 immediately, Nxg4 after 2 seconds (and stays there).

Yace Paderborn: g6 immediately (and stays there).

All on an Athlon XP 2800+, 512MB RAM.

None of those moves are particularly wonderful, although g6 is certainly least
bad; that you had the opening book switched off explains a lot. I suggest that,
with the opening book switched on, no "advanced" program nowadays would let
itself get in the position after move 10 and would have steered clear well
before.

Alastair



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