Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:28:13 08/18/05
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On August 18, 2005 at 09:29:45, Steve Maughan wrote: >In this position Fruit plays Bxh6! - how long for other engines to find this >combo? > >[d]4rr1q/1bp2p1k/1ppp3p/4n3/4P3/2Q3RP/PPPBB1P1/R6K w - - 0 21 Fruit was probably lucky to spot this. The move may have been even better the previous move, but Fruit could not find it although crafty had seen it (Crafty was searching quite a bit deeper than fruit here) and was expecting it. The unfortunate thing was that after fruit played Nxb6, there were two ways to recapture, axb6 and cxb6. Fruit was expecting axb6 and was pondering. Crafty was going to play cxb6 but failed low (after it saw that Bxh6 was still strong). As a result of the fail low, it searched a _long_ time, and at the last second changed to axb6, which is probably what gave Fruit enough time to see the move. Fruit played well. But it was pretty lucky to stumble into a pretty much won game so easily, getting outsearched as it was... But it happens...
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