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Subject: Re: Chessmaster and Mr. Slug

Author: Eric Adolph

Date: 19:12:53 11/08/98

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Making this even more amazing is the fact that CM makes the move instantaneouly
if you put it on short time controlls.


>As a experiment we took the position to our local club and tested it with the
>states strongest player (2317) after ten minutes of thought he could not find
>this move! Nor did he even consider it. It was almost scary to see a computer
>make a move like this , as if a human brain was in the circuitry! Certainly the
>move wasn't made based on pure calculation because the complications arising if
>beyond even deepblue!!
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>>This post is for Mr Slug.
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>>Chessmaster has come up with a seeming novelty(Actually just extremely rare
>>courtesy of L. Tamarkin my 5 mill datab didn't have it at all) in the move
>>8...d6,  Though Nimzo98 has in book 9.f4 as a response.  There are a few games
>>in million base (18 games) with 8...d6 played but they all miss the important
>>point of 8...d6 which is to follow up 9.Nb5 Ne5 10. Nxc7 with the brilliant
>>Bh3!.
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>>This thread was slightly lost because of various other arguements and Mr. Slug
>>found it interesting as I.  For further comment refer to the thread.  I guess it
>>is so interesting in that the move almost seems like an intuitive
>>sacrifice(10...Bh3) though of course that's just assigning human qaulities to
>>comps :).
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>>"Hi: I'm really disappointed in this unfortaunate long running thread, which is
>>occurring because 1 guy resigns, and another just leaves.  I was really looking
>>forward to continued speculation about make believe matches between the chess
>>programs against Jon Schroer, and some Brilliant move that CM6000 keeps coming
>>up with.  But I guess we won't be talking about any of that for a while, because
>>all of this Bull-Shit is going on!"
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>>(mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!)



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