Author: Amir Ban
Date: 14:56:37 01/18/98
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On January 18, 1998 at 17:39:02, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On January 18, 1998 at 17:05:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 18, 1998 at 16:41:30, Amir Ban wrote: > >>>No. 11 (Nxg4): >>> >>>Junior immediately grabs Bb5 and sticks with it. I analyzed Nxg4 and >>>there is certainly some point to it. These are two completely different >>>plans, and although Bb5 seems better, I'm not sure. >>> >>>Recommend: Add Bb5 as a side solution. >> >>Crafty also found Bb5 as best. It locks on to this >>move at .7 seconds and never wavers, eval = +1.5... > >I think a lot of what was said in this post was great, but I'd be very >worried about actually modifying a test suite based upon a 20-second >search by *anything*. > >bruce I did more than that, and my original post said so. I tried to analyze both the original key and the alternate for some time, and sometimes tried to follow lines to see what comes up. In this case (no. 11) I put up Nxg4 for some time and saw that I get a score climbing up enough to make it a competitor of Bb5, and then let it think about Bb5 for some time to see that the score doesn't go up or down drastically. In no. 28, I discovered the line posted by stepping through the possibilities after Rxf4. As I said, I discovered that this does indeed work, though I only get scores close to 0. Still better than anything else. Same for no. 84. I don't find Bg6, but after stepping through it, I see it works. In no. 19, I took the trouble of following the forced line after Rxf6 just to convince myself that it is not the obvious solution, etc. etc. I didn't spend more than a few minutes on each, and don't claim scientific accuracy. I welcome any deeper analysis done by anyone, but, since I have done this work, it would be a pity to just dismiss it. Amir
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