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Subject: Re: Shredder 8 and Deep Fritz 8 analysis

Author: martin fierz

Date: 00:38:08 10/06/04

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On October 05, 2004 at 23:42:12, Albert Silver wrote:

>On October 05, 2004 at 19:59:48, Gordon Rattray wrote:
>
>>I've noticed that Shredder 8 and Deep Fritz 8 don't stick with e5, and switch to
>>Nf5.  The last iteration of each search was allowed to complete in case e5 was
>>chosen again.
>>
>>cheers
>>
>>Gordon
>>
>>---------------------
>>
>>Hardware:  Dual Opteron 248, 1 GB for hash
>>
>>Analysis by Shredder 8:
>>
>>1.Bxb4 Rxb4 2.Rf4
>>  -+  (-1.77)   Depth: 1/2   00:00:01
>>1.Bxb4 Rb6 2.Nc2 Qb2 3.Bc3
>>  ยต  (-1.08)   Depth: 1/3   00:00:01
>>1.Bxb4 Rb6 2.Nc2 Qb2 3.Bc3
>>  +-  (2.20)   Depth: 2/2   00:00:01
>
>(...)
>
>>1.Nf5 Ra7 2.Nh6+ Kg7 3.Nf5+ Kf8 4.Rxb3 axb3 5.Bxb4 Rxb4 6.Nxd6 Ra2 7.Qf1 Rb2
>>8.c5 Qxb1 9.e5 Rxh4 10.Qxb1 Rxb1#
>>  -+  (-3.60)   Depth: 21/60   00:58:29  3388524kN
>
>One must wonder about a line where the program suggests a move that leads to
>itself getting mated in its main line. Especially when the mate isn't forced.
>:-)
>
>                                        Albert

..and especially when it evaluates the mate as -3.60 :-)

cheers
  martin



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