Author: Will Singleton
Date: 14:19:42 06/19/00
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On June 19, 2000 at 04:37:18, Peter Kappler wrote: >On June 19, 2000 at 03:58:01, Will Singleton wrote: > >>In a game tonight on ICC, Amateur declined to sac for the attack, and played >>14.Bg3. But I think it's ok to take the pawn, so I was disappointed to see >>this. What do other progs do? >> >>[D]1rbq1rk1/2pp1p2/2n2n1p/1p2p1p1/4P2B/1BPP1N2/2P2PPP/R2Q1RK1 w - g6 >> > > >That's *really* funny - I was about to post the same position! > >By the way, this was an extremely valuable game for me, because it helped me >find a rather huge bug in Grok's king safety that caused it to play 13...g5 and >some of the ridiculous king moves that followed. > >Grok likes Nxg5 after 8 seconds (ply 8) with an equal score. After 2 minutes >the score jumps to +0.5. > >Phalanx (always brilliant in these types of positions) finds it in under 4 >seconds with a score of +2. > >Fritz6a finds it in 30 seconds, at +0.6. After 100 seconds it's at +1.34 > >Chess System Tal 2 finds it in 4 seconds with a +2.2 score. Very similar to >Phalanx! > >Crafty sticks with Bg3. I gave up after 3 minutes. > > >Conclusion: Nxg5 looks very strong to me! > >--Peter Thanks for the info. Am surprised to hear that Crafty and Fritz6a have some trouble. Crafty in particular must be doing something wrong not to see this. Nice to see Grok playing again. Re those king moves, I thought that was some sort of new attack scheme you were trying. Happened in a couple of the 4 games. Sorry to hear it was just a bug :) An older version of Amateur will take the pawn. The new one seems to like the fact that your pawns are bad, and wants to leave them that way! So I have some adjusting to do. Will
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