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

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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