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Subject: Re: good sac (i think)

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 01:37:18 06/19/00

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On June 19, 2000 at 03:58:01, Will Singleton wrote:

>In a game tonight on ICC, Amateur declined to sac for the attack, and played
>14.Bg3.  But I think it's ok to take the pawn, so I was disappointed to see
>this.  What do other progs do?
>
>[D]1rbq1rk1/2pp1p2/2n2n1p/1p2p1p1/4P2B/1BPP1N2/2P2PPP/R2Q1RK1 w - g6
>


That's *really* funny - I was about to post the same position!

By the way, this was an extremely valuable game for me, because it helped me
find a rather huge bug in Grok's king safety that caused it to play 13...g5 and
some of the ridiculous king moves that followed.

Grok likes Nxg5 after 8 seconds (ply 8) with an equal score.  After 2 minutes
the score jumps to +0.5.

Phalanx (always brilliant in these types of positions) finds it in under 4
seconds with a score of +2.

Fritz6a finds it in 30 seconds, at +0.6.  After 100 seconds it's at +1.34

Chess System Tal 2 finds it in 4 seconds with a +2.2 score.  Very similar to
Phalanx!

Crafty sticks with Bg3.  I gave up after 3 minutes.


Conclusion: Nxg5 looks very strong to me!

--Peter



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