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Subject: Re: Junior 8 Bishop sac on h2, similar to the one in the Kasparov game?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 04:31:11 07/24/03

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On July 24, 2003 at 01:59:12, stuart taylor wrote:

>It looks like the white King has some sort of way out, but maybe not quite
>enough to make the sac unsound.
>If it is indeed the best move, It's very impressive that a computer plays it.

Well, so far we haven't found a single chess program which doesn't play
Bxh2+ in this position.

I would still like to see a comment from a strong player regarding the soundness
of the combination, though.

>How does it see it? Was is educated in this pattern formation?

I don't know about Junior, but Gothmog (my program, which plays Bxh2 after 5
seconds) does not have any knowledge of the pattern.  It likes Bxh2 because
it thinks white has a very bad king safety in the resulting positions.  My
guess is that other programs like Bxh2 for similar reasons.

Tord



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