Author: blass uri
Date: 15:49:17 06/19/00
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On June 19, 2000 at 17:19:42, Will Singleton wrote: >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. Crafty is not the worst program. Junior5.9 could not see it in more than an hour and I did not give it to calculate more time in order to see it(I do not know if Junior6a is better). I think that you should not decide about a change in the evaluation based on only one position. Uri
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