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Subject: Re: What's your programs worst ever move ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:40:19 08/30/03

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On August 30, 2003 at 08:18:41, Geoff wrote:

>Hi
>
>My program just "excelled" itself with my favourite worst ever move.
>This shambles wasn't due to an obvious bug as such, more just to lack of search
>depth. Here is the position
>
>[D]2r3k1/1b2n1bp/p2N4/1p6/6Q1/1P6/1PqN1PPP/R5K1 b - - 0 30
>
>My program was playing black, my opponent offered me 2 tempting hung pieces
>adjacent to my queen. My program avoided the knight capture, but couldn't resist
>gobbling up the white pawn on b2.
>Can you see the outcome of this move just be looking at the position? I couldnt
>really see it, but most computer analysis will show it very quickly.
>Hint: I got smothered, very elegantly !!

Yes
This idea is a known idea for chess player and I guess that even most players
with rating 1600 will have no problem to see it.


>
>The other reason I found this quite amusing was the opponent that trapped me
>into this blunder. Was it Shredder?, Junior?, Fritz? , nope just humble old TSCP
>:-)
>
>Anyone else got a favorite clanger that wasn't due to just an obvious bug ?
>
>        Regards Geoff

I can only tell you that if my program does not find something simple like that
in less than 0.1 second then it is a clear proof that it has bugs or problems
that I need to fix.

Uri



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