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Subject: Re: Karpov Missed a Win?

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 23:03:54 07/11/99

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On July 11, 1999 at 21:06:05, Laurence Chen wrote:

>On July 11, 1999 at 17:38:14, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>5b2/1b2k1p1/2q2pQp/p2p1B1P/3P1N2/1P4P1/5P1K/8 w - - 0 57
>>
>>57. Qh7 Bc8 58. Bxc8 Qxc8 59. Nxd5+ Kd8 60. Nf4 Qb7 61. Qg8 Ke8 62. Qe6+ Qe7 63.
>>Kg2 Qxe6 64. Nxe6 Kf7 65. Nxf8 Kxf8
>Yes, Karpov missed a win against Shredder. Perhaps he was short in time, and the
>move 57. Qh7 is not easy to find on board when the clock is ticking away.
>Karpov did an excellent job outplaying the machine positionally. This games
>demonstrates that Shredder suffers the same problem which plagues other chess
>engines, it allowed a kingside mating attack which Karpov missed his chance to
>convert to a full point.
>Laurence

LambChop finds Qh7 with a plus 2.9 score in 57sec on my P133, using 1mb hash.

Peter



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