Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 01:32:17 10/15/00
Go up one level in this thread
On October 14, 2000 at 19:49:42, Thorsten Czub wrote: >yes - this was what made me crazy. >i asked ossi: oh - why do you exchange the fianchetto-bishop >against the unimportant knight when black has still this colored >bishop AND the queens are on board. >don't you have a malus NOT to do this ? >CStal HAS a malus and also a high bonus when the opponent exchanges >its financhetto bishop in such a position. > >ossi said to richard: don't worry. he is not right. you cannot >generalize this. in some psotions it is right, in some it is wrong. >don't worry richard. its not a problem here. > >he said this. but i was sure he lies. he is wrong. he just wants >so keep richard cool. that richard is not worried. but i was >sure he is not believing his own words. > >later, when genius was lost, they continued the game. wanted to >play as if they wait for a wonder. >strange. > >it took long. reminded me on dark thought. > >some people do not accept their fade. >they still hope that the earth suddenly turns other way arround. They played on for a long time when mine beat them, too. The reason is that they were hoping for a bug. They were very serious about winning that tournament, I think. You are right that it's obvious that it's a bad idea to trade that bishop. Richard probably had a term for it, but the program probably made a mistake. bruce
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.