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Subject: Re: Zappa 1.1

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 03:04:07 09/15/05

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On September 15, 2005 at 04:35:41, Mark Young wrote:

>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.

It's winning, only extremely deep.

Ed



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