Author: martin fierz
Date: 02:07:34 11/10/00
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On November 09, 2000 at 18:33:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Prior to this point, I would have expected a draw. two pieces for a rook >is generally an advantage. I would not expect to lose such a position very >often since the two pieces are generally much stronger. This "bad trade" >score has been influencing the scores crafty produces for quite a while in >the game. It is one of those 'speculative' type scores that just happens to >be wrong here, but it is right far more often than it is wrong. there are two points about this game which i would like to comment on: 1) if there is something to critcise about crafty's play it is certainly not the evaluation (+3 - you must be joking...) but the 'dumb' Rc8-b8-c8 on move 24/25/26 and the knight manoeuver Nc6-b8-c6 just afterwards and 2) bob's assertion above. in an endgame R+2P can easily be stronger than two pieces, especially N+B - 2 bishops is another thing of course. given the active placing of white's rook it is clear that only white has winning chances in this endgame. in the middle game N+B - R+2P is usually good for the pieces, but in the engame less so. cheers martin
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