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Subject: Re: Games are up. Uff!

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 08:53:20 01/12/00

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On January 12, 2000 at 11:45:27, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On January 12, 2000 at 10:25:54, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>

>>This position, after 23.Ne4 is very instructive.  Enrique seems to be right that
>>programs that do not spot the mate threat in this position tend to fall prey to
>>fast finders.  I've had enough time to check on several progs -- the successful
>>ones (fast finders) took only a couple of seconds at the most to spot both the
>>threat and the mate:  Crafty 17.6 SMP, Fritz 6 (all test versions), Deep Junior
>>6, Hiarcs 7.32... I haven't set up my Tiger 12, but am sure that it would spot
>>the mate in a split second :)
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>Right, Rebel-Tiger (Tiger 12.0e engine) would play Rc8+ in 0.71s with a score of
>+5.17, then announces that Rc8+ is mate in 7 in 1.31s.
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>    Christophe
>


Christophe, hi.  I am glad that my expression "split second" was both
figuratively and literally true :)) I had known it, watching the lightning fast
tactics of Tiger, especially lately on ICC when I matched it with Anmon 5.03,
Goliath 2000 v2 and Patzer 3.09...

*** Djordje



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