Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:16:11 03/04/99
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On March 03, 1999 at 21:30:46, odell hall wrote: >Hi CCC > > In my game against Worf on ICC, I sacrificed a bishop which was critizized by >worf after the game as being unsound! My intuition told me that it was correct, >after the game I checked with hiarcs6, and fritz5 to see if they would play the >move. Neither program Found it after five minutes. I was sure that if fritz5, >a tactical genius could not find the move, I thought I was wasting my time >trying rebel. To my shock Rebel found the move quite easily in 1 minute 16 sec. >Here is the position > >r2q3r/pp1k1pb1/3p3p/3P3n/5Bbp/2N5/PPPQN1P1/2K2R1R w - - id allworld - WORF; bm >f4d6; > > > This goes to show that computers are as diverse as humans in the moves they >decide upon. I let Chessmaster 6000 think for about 45 minutes on a P2-400, to a depth of 5/11, and it preferred Bxd6 for all except the first two seconds (when it preferred Nd4). The eval was +0.81 for white and the line was: 1.Bxd6 f5 2.Bh2 Qg5 3.Nf4 Rhe8 4.d6 Nf6 5.Qd3 Ne4 6.Qb5 Kxd6 7.Nxe4 fxe4 8.Qxb7 jm
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