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Selective Search Mags 61-90,91-99 are up

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We thank you Eric & Mike for your hard work and especially Eric Hallsworth, creator and editor of Selective Search magazine for which this endeavor would never be possible.

28 years of month by month coverage of the Computer Chess hardware/software scene,priceless and 10,752 of reading material & nostalgic memories.
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reflectionofpower wrote:We thank you Eric & Mike for your hard work and especially Eric Hallsworth, creator and editor of Selective Search magazine for which this endeavor would never be possible.

28 years of month by month coverage of the Computer Chess hardware/software scene,priceless and 10,752 of reading material & nostalgic memories.
Eric, the publisher of Selective Search, is today celebrating his 50th Wedding Anniversary! Congratulations to Chris and Eric

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Harvey Williamson wrote:
reflectionofpower wrote:We thank you Eric & Mike for your hard work and especially Eric Hallsworth, creator and editor of Selective Search magazine for which this endeavor would never be possible.

28 years of month by month coverage of the Computer Chess hardware/software scene,priceless and 10,752 of reading material & nostalgic memories.
Eric, the publisher of Selective Search, is today celebrating his 50th Wedding Anniversary! Congratulations to Chris and Eric

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Congrats Eric :D
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Re: Selective Search Mags 61-90,91-99 are up

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very cool - two gems I found very quickly

[d]r1b1kn1r/6b1/p1qP2p1/2P1pp1n/Pp5p/4BP2/1P1QBNPP/R4RK1 w kq - 0 1

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Bb5!

from the game off the month: and I quote: "...none of the engines play this..." current dev SF fins this almost instantly and after a deeper search:

info depth 37 seldepth 72 multipv 1 score cp 293 lowerbound nodes 6247304092 nps 26346926 hashfull 999 tbhits 211067 time 237117 pv e2b5

and this game was from 1913, a simul by Alekhine vs Pratt
[d]2qrr1n1/3b1kp1/2pBpn1p/1p2PP2/p2P4/1BP5/P3Q1PP/4RRK1 w - - 0 1

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Qh5!

quote: "Good news here for C3.0 purchasers, the new program finds the move in only 2:08 and actually shows mate in 2:05"

latest SF finds mate in 10 in less than 5 seconds:

info depth 26 seldepth 50 multipv 1 score mate 10 nodes 154438333 nps 31466653 hashfull 885 tbhits 5022 time 4908 pv e2h5 f6h5 f5e6 f7g6 b3c2 g6g5 f1f5 g5g6 f5f6 g6g5 f6g6 g5h4 e1e4 h5f4 e4f4 h4h5 g2g3 e8e6 f4h4 - by the way ,that is exactly how Alekhine played it to get the mate-in-10- so kudos to the late World Champion  
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We are spoiled.
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