Author: Tom King
Date: 12:06:20 03/22/99
In the June 1996 ICCA journal, there's a little article by Hans Berliner entitled "Why did Kasparov blink?". It refers to the position after move 19 in game 5 of the Kasparov-Deep Blue match 1996. (I don't have the PGN for this position, sorry). Anyhow, according to Berliner, B*Hitech (his program) found the key move Bxh7+ after 3.1 hours of calculation. For fun, I put this position to my program, Francesca, running on a Cyrix P233. To my delight, it found the move Bxh7+ after 2 hours of calculating, although it was only scoring +0.27 for the move, so it (she) didn't view Bxh7+ to be a winning move. How do other programs do on this one? (I guess the commercials get it very quickly? Does any program get this on a standard tournament level? how about blitz?) Cheers, Tom
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