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Subject: Deep Blue's 8.Nxe6 in Game 6 a forced win?

Author: emerson tan

Date: 06:11:25 09/15/03


I played a 24 game match between Shredder 6.02 and Hiarcs 7.32 with the
following opening.

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Ng5 Ngf6 6.Bd3 e6 7.N1f3 h6 8.Nxe6

Time control was 40/4hrs + 20/2hrs + 2hrs to finish on a 1.8 Ghz processor.

Shredder played all the white games and Hiracs all the black games. The score
went 13-11 in Hiarcs favor. Only a couple of games were drawn.

I choose Shredder 6.02 to have white because it likes whites position and
without an opening book, it will play the 8.Nxe6 sacrifice. Also, Shredder has a
positional learning. I choose Hiarcs for black solely because of its positional
learning. Positional learning is important in this one opening match since it
will be able to learn and improve its next play based on the same opening.

Maybe 8.Nxe6 is not a forced win for white. Maybe Kasparov can study it and use
it in some high profile match against computers since most of the programmers
might put it in their books thinking its a forced win for white.






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