Author: allan johnson
Date: 15:08:57 09/24/05
[D] 1rb2rk1/4R1p1/1pqn1pBp/3p4//5Q2/1NP3PP/6PK/4R3 w - - 0 30 30.Re6 Be6 31.Nd4 Qc4 32.Qxd6 Bxh3 33.Kxh3 Kh8 34.Nf5 Whilst reading up on some of the games of Zappa in the World Computer Chess Championship I came across this position which the author says Zappa found but that other programmes could not.Out of curiousity I put the position to my Mephisto Lyon and noted that it initially can't even find Be8. It looks at Nd4 for 2min 59sec but then selects Re1-e6.Admittedly the score it gives is 0.00 but all the follow up moves are there.Actually it doesn't give White a reasonable positive score until 34 Nf5 (+1.66)but nonetheless I was surprised that it did this well given the complexity of the position. Then again I expect there's a simple explanation for how it found the combination. Al PS I put the position to Junior 9 but the best it can come up with is Be8.
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