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Subject: Re: Zappa 1.1

Author: Mark Young

Date: 01:35:41 09/15/05

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On September 15, 2005 at 03:13:17, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On September 14, 2005 at 17:05:59, Ernst Walet wrote:
>
>>Because Zappa 1.1 is SMP and 64 bit, I gave it a try and was pleasant suprised.
>>One of my favourite chess positions is this one, where Kasparov played Rxd4.
>>How do other engines do? If your engine finds it please give it a couple of more
>>plies to see if it holds it.
>
>It's not that hard to find Rxd4 because of positional motives, it's hard to find
>it with a convincing score.

Ed, if a program finds this move with a convincing score, and holds on to it
after a good search. The program has a problem, since Rxd4 is not winning. This
is why most program will not stick to the move, or show a convincing score.

>
>Ed
>
>>Ernst.
>>
>>
>>[D]b2r3r/k4p1p/p2q1np1/NppP4/3p1Q2/P4PPB/1PP4P/1K1RR3 w - -



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