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Subject: Re: Why did Kasparov blink?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 13:04:56 03/22/99

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On March 22, 1999 at 15:25:04, James Robertson wrote:

>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

FEN is

2rr2k1/pp1qnppp/2n1p3/3p4/1bPP3P/1P2RNP1/PB3P2/1BRQ2K1 w - - 0 1

bruce



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