Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 07:30:56 07/24/03
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On July 24, 2003 at 07:55:35, Uri Blass wrote: >On July 24, 2003 at 07:31:11, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>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. > > >No > >People simply do not give analysis of the programs that do not find it because >they do not consider it as interesting. Perhaps. >Hiarcs does not like Bxh2 based on the game. > >The score before Bxh2 was equal and after playing the move it believed that >white had a clear advantage. OK, if you say so. I didn't look at Hiarcs' evals. >My engine movei also does not like Bxh2+ >It believe that white is slightly better after Bxh2 but it is not optimistic >like Hiarcs. > >Mike posted analysis of modified crafty that plays Bxh2+ and the reason is that >probably ot\riginal crafty fail. I should learn to read better. I didn't notice that it was a modified Crafty. Indeed it seems that the unmodified Crafty 19.03 does not play Bxh2. >There are a lot of programs with no king safety evaluation or with small king >safety evaluation that are not going to find Bxh2+. Well, until a strong player has confirmed that the sacrifice is correct I don't think it is necessarily a good thing to "find" Bxh2. Tord
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