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Did black used an egine (no names!)

Did black used an egine (no names!)

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Okay, it's not a big deal, it's just a question of curiosity.

1. reason
Black made regular gaps between moves after 3rd, even with the obvious moves...
2. reason
Hm, feeling.

My moves are sometimes - as usual - patzerish, but I had a "strange, cold feeling" like I am playing against a bot in dark, waste space 🙂 - and it wasn't a draught.

If anyone has an engine to check?

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If it was an engine it wan't a very good one..!

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🙂 Maybe Trabant? (fossil model)

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No engine I've seen wastes tempos like that.

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Not only not a very good engine, but not a very good opening book, either. Out of book on move 2.

I think you're seeing engine ghosts.

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It's the Saragossa opening reversed, which was popular with some of the older engines.


Originally posted by vandervelde
1. reason
Black made regular gaps between moves after 3rd, even with the obvious moves...
So? This is a correspondence site. I regularly check in only every day or so, and then I will spend a week looking at my games twice a day, and then go back to skipping days.

2. reason
Hm, feeling.


I'd get that feeling recalibrated. No engine plays quite that randomly, unless you set it to 1-sec reaction times.

Richard