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Subject: Re: Topic: Certain details of the match between DB and Kasparov

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:06:49 06/14/00

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On June 14, 2000 at 13:46:20, blass uri wrote:

>On June 14, 2000 at 10:30:37, Hans Gerber wrote:
>
>>On June 14, 2000 at 09:53:03, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>On June 14, 2000 at 09:14:25, Hans Gerber wrote:
>>><snipped>
>>>>Did you see a situation before where a
>>>>computer rejected to win material? No please, not again the examples where also
>>>>Crafty rejected such pills.
>>>
>>>I saw cases when programs sacrificed material for positional advantage.
>>>
>>>The first game when a program sacrificed material for positional reasons was
>>>played in 1974 and most programs of today cannot find the right sacrifice
>>>in tournament time control.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Please give us some more details about that incident. Which program? What
>>position? Positional reasons? Please, I must know what you are talking about.
>>
>>
>>Hans
>
>[D]rq2k2r/3n1ppp/p2bpnb1/8/Np1N4/1B3PP1/PP2Q2P/R1BR2K1/ w
>
>This position is from the game Chaos-chess4.0 from 1974.
>Chaos played Nxe6 and won the game.
>
>Uri

[D]rq2k2r/3n1ppp/p2bpnb1/8/Np1N4/1B3PP1/PP2Q2P/R1BR2K1 w kq - 0 1

I hope that the diagram now has no problem.

Uri



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