Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:00:27 10/22/00
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On October 22, 2000 at 16:38:43, Bas Hamstra wrote: >On October 21, 2000 at 15:24:47, Uri Blass wrote: > >>[D]r1bqkb1r/pp1p3p/6p1/3P1pN1/3n3Q/8/PP3PPP/R1B1KB1R b KQkq - 0 1 >>The test is to avoid Nc2+ without book. >> >>Jeroen claimed that the problem is that Tao had no book but I suspect that the >>problem is the fact that Tao has no king attack evaluation and if you combine >>with the fact that Tao is weak in tactics like most of the chess programs you >>can get the blunder. > >Well no big deal you say so but... > >a) Tao was capable of beating Quest/Fritz on 2x slower hardware >b) Tao-Xinix (round 6) was a tactical beauty. The King (the reference) could >hardly have mated faster here. > >In all, I don't think it is THAT bad tactically... I did not say that it is bad in tactics relative to most of the programs and most of the chess programs play Nc2+ without book. My Junior5.9 can avoid it at 4 hours/40 moves but cannot avoid it at 3 hours/40 moves on my pentiumIII450 and Junior5.9 is better than most of the programs in avoiding Nc2+. I can add that when I wrote that Tao has no king attack evaluation I meant to say no big king attack evaluation(I think that Gambittiger and chesssystemtal are the only programs with big king attack evaluation) Uri
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