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Subject: Re: Why did Kasparov blink?

Author: James Robertson

Date: 12:25:04 03/22/99

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On March 22, 1999 at 15:06:20, Tom King wrote:

>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

Maybe you could post the EPD?

James



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