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Subject: Re: How many programs see the astonishing move 17..0-0!! in kaspyvsfritz?

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 05:48:51 11/13/03

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On November 12, 2003 at 23:56:50, Dan Sicerly wrote:

>[D]r1b1k2r/pp1nqppp/8/2Pp4/1B1Nn1P1/4P3/PPQ1B2P/2K2RR1 b kq - 0 17
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>In this position Fritz decides to castle, which leaves it an exchange down, but
>with a solid position, Seirwan said this was a human like decision and clearly
>demonstrated Advanced chess thinking, how many programs Choose this move, my
>Fritz8 doesn't choose the move after 5 minutes on XP2400

Fritz 8 on my XP2400+ will castle after about 23 minutes.  Considering the speed
of the machine Fritz X3D was running on this is not unusual.  Also the PV
provided by Fritz 8 indicates it had no idea it was losing the exchange at that
point.  Fritz expected Bf3 next after the castle move.
Jim



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