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Subject: Re: Positional mistake, which computers avoid it?

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 10:04:47 04/14/00

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On April 14, 2000 at 01:31:12, Pete Galati wrote:

>On April 13, 2000 at 18:00:21, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>
>>r1b2rk1/5pbp/p7/1P1P2q1/2B1pp2/N7/PP2QPPP/R4R1K b - - 1 19
>>
>>	Black played 19... Qxg2+?, winning an exchange but giving up a dangerous and
>>promising attack.
>>	Which programs are able to avoid this mistake?
>>José.
>
>At the search depths that I was able to reach, Crafty did Qxg2+, but Amy avoided
>it for some reason, maybe with a deeper search Amy would have taken the pawn
>with the Queen too.  I'm trying to figure out why not 19....f3 forking white's
>Queen and the pawn blocking the King, is there a reason the programs hate that
>idea?
>
>Pete
>
[snip]

	19... f3? is a bad move. After 20. gxf3 exf3 the g-file is open and white is
ready to take it with a rook, while black will have to hurry to move his king
and his queen to other files.
José.



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