Author: Howard Exner
Date: 07:14:15 02/04/98
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On February 04, 1998 at 06:01:52, Amir Ban wrote: >On February 04, 1998 at 03:12:35, Howard Exner wrote: > >>On February 03, 1998 at 15:52:30, Amir Ban wrote: >>>No. 411 (Qxd6): >>> >>>I get the simple gxh7. Trying Qxd6, it gets about the same score (+3.5). >>>The position is already very unbalanced anyway, so there may be more. >>> >>>Recommend: Scrap it, or add gxh7. >> >>Rebel 8 gets 3.16 for Qxd6 and 2.26 for gxh7. My subjective view >>is that Qxd6 is more decisive. >>> > >Perhaps so. Qxd6 ends up an exchange and a pawn up with the queens >traded. gxh7 is two pawns up, pawn on seventh and black king stripped. >Rebel is conservative. Again this will be a matter of taste. In my opinion the gxh7 is the more conservative, less forcing line. The pawn on the 7th is serving as a shield to the black king. This position will be interesting as other programs submit analyse. I agree that both moves gxh7 and Qxd6 would cause a swift resignation in a GM game.
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