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Subject: Re: TRUE BLUE book from Batsford

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:11:50 08/02/99

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On August 02, 1999 at 01:40:07, Paulo Soares wrote:

>On August 02, 1999 at 01:17:01, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>I am back from 4 weeks summer vacation (no internet!). I saw just ad from
>>Batsford. There should be soon book by Joel Benjamin about Deep Blue. It will
>>tell the truth?! Has anybody already seen it? All comments welcome.
>>
>>Jouni
>
>Jouni, at first I want you know that your absence was felt here.
>Robert Yatt placed a post speaking that Crafty(new version), for the
>first time, obtained to find a move from a position that you placed
>in CCC. I don't remember the position, but the move was a rook
>sacrifiece in column "b".
>I was curious with this book of Joel Benjamin about Deep Blue.
>
>Paulo Soares, from Brazil


It was WAC 230.  Jouni had posted something like "Does _anybody_ ever get
Rb4 in Wac230?"  I was surprised to find that the most recent few versions of
Crafty did so, taking about 1 minute and 16-17 plies on my quad xeon...

nothing amazing, however...



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