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Subject: Re: Does computer make unsound sacs, any example?

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:43:38 12/01/99

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On December 01, 1999 at 15:27:46, yibing fan wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Just curious.  We saw human player make unsound sac all the time, at least in
>club level.  That often leads to a more exciting and interesting game or more
>humanly game.  We, human, saw the opportunity, but don't know the outcome within
>our calculating power, we gamble! Sometime we win sometime lose.
>
>Chess softwares, which been lowed their strenth to club level, seem not doing
>so. They reduce their playing strenth by hanging pieces or reduce searching
>time.  This make playing against them rather dull.
>
>May be this is a desired feature of some top comercial software.

I know that chess system tal does unsound sacrifices.
It did unsound sacrifice against Junior in WMCCC in 1997 and lost.
You can also change the parameters of some programs to do unsound sacrifices.

Uri



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