Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 16:24:27 03/08/00
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On March 08, 2000 at 18:52:32, chris sergel wrote: >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 > If you have Xboard or Winboard, simply set up the position (preferably by entering the moves if you have them), and then choose the option 'save position'. It will ask you for a filename, paste here the content of the file you used to save the position (note that many positions can be saved in the same file). Add a [D] at the left if you want a nice diagram. Many other chess programs will allow you to save positions in fen format (which is standard). José. >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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