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Subject: Re: Test Position - Kasparov vs. Karpov

Author: Mike S.

Date: 20:43:41 03/23/04

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On March 23, 2004 at 23:12:30, Derek Paquette wrote:

>This is interesting,
>Shredder 8 nails this one at only 3 minutes
>Nf2 is the correct move, but,

I'm not sure if this is a good test position... Nf2 doesn't seem to be forced,
nor threatening something strongl etc. (?). When you say it's the correct move,
are the alternatives incorrect, or significantly weaker? I don't see anything
special here in the sense of a "test" move. The position is covered by some
computer opening books, which of course isn't surprising when K&K played it, but
that doesn't make it a good test move automatically...

(Maybe it's just meant as a good positional decision or the like, but it's known
that this kind of tests tend to be very ambigous.)

>Hiarcs9 struggles with this, really struggles,  because of its low ply search
>maybe??

Hiarcs is a low *node rate* engine, but I think in general it's not a low ply
depth engine (although I admit I didn't compare typical depths in the same time
yet). - That comparision can be different depending on the position, too.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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