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Subject: Re: Human Style or Lazy? (Zappa 1.1)

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 13:54:14 08/30/05

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On August 30, 2005 at 16:40:55, Ray Rogers wrote:

>Human Style or Lazy?
>
>This position occurred during a game in Margate in 2000.
>
>[D] 8/1p6/p1bk4/2R2Pp1/4p1P1/P3K3/1P5P/8 w - - 0 46
>
>White, a stronger player than I, went with Kd4 and of course black resigned but
>only on move 57. I was watching and thought Rxc6 might produce instant
>resignation! The next day I put this to my electronic friends, RISC 1mb and
>Rebel 7 agreed in a few seconds whilst HIARCS 7.32, R30 (1995) and others liked
>Kd4.
>
>Clearly RxB snuffs out any chance of black sticking a "cheapo" on him.
>
>Was I thinking like a human or just being lazy?
>
>I'm not a programmer but would be interested in the programmers' point of view.
>
>What would you WANT your program to play here?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Ray.
>
>ps. If you think you've seen this before Eric Hallsworth published my letter in
>Selective Search No. 89.


New game,
8/1p6/p1bk4/2R2Pp1/4p1P1/P3K3/1P5P/8 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Zappa 1.1: (P4 1.8/32 MB hash)

46.Rxc6+ Kxc6 47.Kxe4 Kd6 48.b4 b6 49.a4 Ke7 50.Ke5 Kf7 51.Kd5 b5 52.axb5 axb5
53.Kc6 Kf6 54.Kxb5 Ke5
  +-  (7.10)   Depth: 1   00:00:00
  +-  (9.94)   Depth: 16   00:00:33  7256kN

(Utzinger, MyTown 30.08.2005)




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