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

Author: Terry Presgrove

Date: 22:13:33 02/05/99

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On February 05, 1999 at 14:16:07, blass uri wrote:

>
>On February 05, 1999 at 11:57:56, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>A couple of days ago I reported on the successful performance of two French
>>programs, Chess Wizard and Zchess, in the Aubervilliers rapid chess tournament.
>>As this particular position may have been overlooked, and as I believe that it
>>is worth analysing with different chess software, I'll try to bring it up again.
>>
>>White: GM Sekatchev, Black: Zchess 1.2:
>>
>>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. d3 Bg7 6. h3 Qb6 7. Nc3 Qb4 8. O-O
>>Bxc3 9. a3 Qa5 10. bxc3 Qxc3 11. Rb1 Qa5 12. Bb2 f6 13. e5 f5 14. e6 Nf6 15. Qc1
>>b6 16. Re1 O-O 17. Qh6 c4 18. dxc4 Bxe6 19. Rxe6 Rf7 20. Ng5 * 1-0
>>
>>
>>on move 8, Black (Zchess 1.2) played 8...Bxc3.  Of the tested programs, the only
>>one not yielding to the temptation was Zarkov 5 playing 8...Nf6, not bothering
>>to capture the Knight, which is, of course, a good move.  Other programs, among
>>them Crafty 16.0, according to Zchess's author Franck Zibi, tend to play the
>>same bad move, 8...Bxc3.  More info, with comments by Franck 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6
>>3. Bb5 g6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. d3 Bg7 6. h3 Qb6 7. Nc3 Qb4 8. O-OBxc3 9. a3 Qa5 10.
>>bxc3 Qxc3 11. Rb1 Qa5 12. Bb2 f6 13. e5 f5 14. e6 Nf6 15. Qc1b6 16. Re1 O-O 17.
>>Qh6 c4 18. dxc4 Bxe6 19. Rxe6 Rf7 20. Ng5 *Zibi, can be found at
>>http://www.forum64.com/. Some tested programs are (AMD K6-2/300):
>>
>>ZChess 1.2 Bxc3 ?? 11 +0.80
>>WChess 2000 Bxc3 ?? 11 +0.88
>>Crafty 16.0 Bxc3 ?? 12 +0.13
>>Chess Genius 6  Bxc3 ?? 8  -0.06
>>Fritz 5.0 Bxc3 ?? 11 -0.25
>>Zarkov 5 Nf6 ! :-)  6 -0.19
>>
>>What does your program play in this position?  Bob, you said that you could not
>>reproduce 8...Bxc3.  Could you retry it on your Quad? Others?
>
>I found crafty16.4 as an engine for Junior5 did not like Bxc3 from the first
>second.
>It prefers Bd7 with an evaluation(the evaluation is the advantage for white in
>pawns):
>0.25:7,0.27:8,0.41:9,0.36:10,0.50:11,0.57:12 and reject Bxc3 also at depth 12.
>
>Uri
>
>Uri
>>
>>Regards,
>>Djordje

  Rebel 10 on my k6350 takes 10:34 to find nf6 /eval-.17
  interestingly finds nf6 using EPD diagam in 9:49/eval-.07
  I had anti-GM off for analysis.
  TP



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