Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 03:36:49 11/25/00
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This position is very revelatory of how materialistic chess programs are. Yace seems to have a good positional understanding but flubs the manuever and ends up worse for the effort. Yace completely ignores the trapping of the black queen and instead prefers an attack on the black king. Tiger and Rebel Century 3.0 behave similarly when taken to the 3. Qa4+ point by manual move entry. In order to beat chess computers you have to induce them to make positional errors by offering "irresistable material". When we have a program that does this then we will be getting true grandmaster level opponents. On November 25, 2000 at 02:31:18, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Can your program solve this queen trap problem. It may not be possible to solve >with any of todays programs. > [D]r3k2r/pp2ppbp/1q4p1/2npP3/5P2/2P5/PP4PP/RNBQR2K w > >This is an actual position that I got myself into when playing Rebel Century 3.0 >on my PII 333 64 MB RAM at 40/120. The move sequence with me to move is: > >1. Be3 Qxb2 2. Bxc5 Qxa1 3. Qa4+ Kf8 4. Qc2!! b6 5. Bd4 Rc8 6. Rd1 e6 >7. Na3 Qxd1 8. Qxd1 and the score is +2.30 in whites' favor. > >I found that neither RC3 nor Gambit Tiger would choose the move 1. Be3. > >Will any program on faster machines find that first move for white? After that >move will any program not select the pawn and then the rook capture? > > > >Tim Frohlick
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