Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 / QGSI 2.0; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!qubix!lab From: lab@qubix.UUCP (Q-Bick) Newsgroups: net.chess Subject: Strange move by chess(6) Message-ID: <1627@qubix.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 17:02:39 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.1627 Posted: Sat Jul 13 17:02:39 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 02:24:58 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Quadratix ... Quartix Lines: 29 [Somehow I managed to convince da boss that net.chess is technical :-] Was playing /usr/games/chess and found the computer making a move I cannot explain (White == Q-Bick, Black = Vax 4.2BSD): 1. p-k4 P-K4 2. b-b4 N-QB3 3. p-q3 B-B4 4. n-qb3 N-KB3 5. b-kn5 O-O 6. n-q5 P-QR4 <-- Why ?? (perhaps just "?" :-) 7. bxn PxB 8. q-r5 P-Q3 9. q-r6 B-QN5 + <-- Futility sets in 10. k-q1 ?! <-- Only because I "know" what Black will B-KN5 + do next (from playing him before). 11. n-kb3 BxN+ ?? <-- "Here, White, mate me in four!" I find no explanation for Black's 6th move. I also wonder about the possibilities of 11. ... P-KB4 Not that Black can come close to drawing (12. nxkbp+, qxn; 13. qxq), but it does create more possibilities. Replies by mail preferred. If sufficient response, I will summarize and post. -- The Ice Floe of the Q-Bick {amd,decwrl,sun,idi,ittvax}!qubix!lab You can't settle the issue until you settle how to settle the issue.