Author: Howard Exner
Date: 01:15:35 05/03/00
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On May 03, 2000 at 00:06:39, blass uri wrote: >On May 02, 2000 at 16:49:25, Pete R. wrote: > >>I think Shredder's output is basically correct in that Rxe6 is *not* the best >>move. After Rxe6 fxe6 is best and leads to the forced line given. Shredder >>sees this better than Fritz does, btw, Fritx abandons fxe6 in favor of Rc7. >>Somebody mentioned 1. Rxe6 fxe6 2. Bh6?! as being better than 2. Nxe6 but I >>disagree. 1. Rxe6 fxe6 2. Bh6 a6 and white is still in poor shape. 1. Bh6 has a >>point to keep the king in the center, but 1. Qd3 to prevent a6 may be as good or >>better. In any case Shredder seems to be doing fine. > >I remember that I tried to play the position after Rxe5 fxe6 2.Bh6 with black >with the help of my beta version of Junior(Junior4.6 was the commercial version >and I used a better version) in this board about 1.5-2 years ago and could not >win with black. > >I am not sure what I played but I think that I played a6 and the opponent >replied Re1 at some stage of the game that was a strong move. > >Uri Hi Uri, you and I played this position through together about that time. It was sort of a quasi correspondence game where I played the white side and you played the black. I recall we concluded that the position was extremely deep and full of twists and turns that computers needed a long time to resolve. It would still be somewhere in the archives of CCC. I recall someone using the handle fcd or something like that, saying that Rxe6 was bad for computers because they would never follow up with Bh6 anyway. It looks now 1.5 years later that some programs are playing Bh6 after the initial Rxe6, pxe6. We were both using computer programs and we agreed then that they were helpful only in wading through the short range intricaties but that they did not understand the difficulties of black's shaky king's position. Similar now in some way to Fritz's and Rebel's losses in the Israeli League competition - long range Kingside pressure culminating in victory. Speaking of the Israeli League games will you be meating Kasparov who is said to be playing on Friday? Is he approachable at such events for pre or post game mingling?
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