Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:18:25 10/03/00
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On October 03, 2000 at 12:34:11, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 03, 2000 at 11:58:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 02, 2000 at 13:54:23, Mike Adams wrote: >> >>>The move that my freind said crafty considered was the pawn takes knight move >>>toward the end. Knight takes bishop earlier wreked the positon and i dont think >>>pulsar would get itself into that kind of postion again with the current >>>evaluate. >> >> >>taking the knight isn't particularly bad. NxB opens a file against your own >>king. PxN (I assume that is the knight you are talking about taking) is a >>reasonable move for white. He wants that open file. > >Mike did not mean to that knight. > >He meant to taking the knight by gxf3 in the following line > >[D]r1bq1rk1/ppp2p2/2n4p/3pP1pn/3P4/2P2NB1/P1P1B1PP/R2QK2R b KQ - 0 14 > >Nxg3 hxg3 g4???? Qd2 gxf3???? > >avoiding gxf3 is a simple tactics. >Crafty17.11 can see at depth 7 that gxf3 is bad. > >The bigger problem is to avoid g4 and crafty17.11 needs depth 9 for it. > >Fritz5.32 can avoid gxf3 at depth 5 and it can avoid g4 also at depth 5. > >Hiarcs4 can avoid gxf3 at depth 3. >Faile 1.4.4 can avoid gxf3 at depth 6. >CometB02 can avoid gxf3 at depth 5. > >All these programs that are not the best programs need few seconds or less than >1 second on a slow hardware to avoid gxf3. > >I think that you need to improve the tactical ability of your program and >working on positional knowledge is less important. > >Chess is a tactical game. > >Uri Yes... but the tactical ability improves automatically. You should try it on my quad xeon. It fries tactical things there. :)
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