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Subject: Re: gambit test suit

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:37:39 01/17/06

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On January 18, 2006 at 00:27:56, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:

>On January 18, 2006 at 00:09:51, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Are all of the gambits poised at the accept/decline position?
>
>I tried to go far enough into the opening so that the gambit was accepted,
>though sometimes the computer may return the material almost immiedieatly. The
>one exception to gambit accepted  was  C63    (  Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Gambit 1.
>e4 e5   2. Nf3 Nc6   3. Bb5 f5.) Fritz book has the immiediate accepting of this
>gambit as questionable, so i did not want to force the engine into an inferior
>line.
>
>
>The idea of this test set was to force the comptuer into the gambit, and let the
>crazyness begin

Rybka is the only program I have seen that had any faint glimmer of
understanding in the Evans Gambit, and it took 40 minutes or so to start to grok
the position well.

I guess that all of the engines are going to really stink at it.



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