Author: chris sergel
Date: 15:52:32 03/08/00
During my last chess lesson I studied a position from a game Nimzovich-Capablance. The position was (afraid I don't your terminology for this)- White K g2, Q h3, R d3 e2, N d4, P a3,b2,c3,e5,f4,g5,h2 Black K g7, Q b6, R c8 c4, N f5, P a5,b7,d5,e6,f7,g6,h5 White to move After the lesson, out of curiosity, I let my computer program analysze the position for a whole hour. At this time, my program wanted to play NxN (which loses in just a few moves). This is not so bad, because also Nimzovich played that move, and he was fine player. The problem with the program is that it thought white had the advantage of almost 3/4 of a pawn. If Junior would evaluate the position the same, then there are still problems that programs have in evaluating this kind of position. With careful preparation it might be possible for a human to defeat even a program like Junior. So everyone here is sure Junior will win, but since human has had Junior for a while, and being a much better player than I am, can find this sort of weakness - maybe the outcome of this match is not so certain. I suspect it all might depend on Junior's opening book and whether or not human has taken the time to probe for this sort of positional weakness. Or it could be that my program is weak and that Junior would evaluate the position differently. Someday a program will come along that would suggest moving Rd2 and evaluate it's position as -1.25 or something. That would be impressive.
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