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Subject: Re: What does your engine play in this position?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:09:05 09/20/03

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On September 20, 2003 at 11:02:04, Tord Romstad wrote:

>Hello, Mikael!
>
>My program (the handle is "GothmogX") has played a few games against
>Chepla in the past (although not recently; it seems that we have both
>been rather inactive lately), and I have often wondered who the author
>was.  Thanks for helping me solve the mystery!  :-)
>
>On September 20, 2003 at 08:26:49, Mikael Bäckman wrote:
>
>>This position occured in a 15 min game chepla-nullmover.
>>
>>[D]r1b1kb1r/1p3ppp/p2pp3/q1pNn2Q/2B5/PP6/2PP1PPP/R1B1R1K1 w kq - 0 14
>
>If the move Rxe5 is indeed correct, the speed with which Chepla finds
>it is impressive.  Gothmog, which usually likes to make sacrifices,
>prefers Bb2 in the first few iterations, and finds Rxe5 only after
>almost 4 minutes:

I think that it is a question of evaluation.
Movei find it after only 2506 nodes at depth 3 and does not change its mind
later.

Uri



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