Author: Fabien Letouzey
Date: 08:06:52 08/18/05
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On August 18, 2005 at 10:28:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Hi Bob, Fruit's PV when playing Nxb6 was: Nxb6 axb6 Bxh6 and the score was +2. But it is true it took it some time to find it. Fabien.
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