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Subject: Re: Interesting test position

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 06:56:16 01/19/98

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On January 19, 1998 at 09:49:00, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 19, 1998 at 07:54:25, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>
>>On January 19, 1998 at 00:05:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>to avoid losing this game, you'd have to play this in 10 seconds or
>>>so, as it was a 5 0 game I believe...  I certainly can't do it...
>>
>>"DarkThought" discards Bxe7 after 1 sec in iteration #8.
>>
>>=Ernst=
>
>
>Positionally or tactically?

In iteration #8 tactically (score drops to +0.1).

After a long think (> 15 min) it switches back to Bxe7 in iteration #12
with a score of +0.56 -- actually not much better than the other good
alternatives.

=Ernst=

>The point of Bxe7 is that it turns out to
>be aggressive as the devil, shredding black's king-side at the end of
>the
>PV, because it recovers the material on d6, but sacs the bishop on g5.
>If
>you don't like to attack, you might not like Bxe7 no matter what.  This
>is
>something I've been working on for several months now.  The score for
>Bxe7
>is only +.5 or so, which is not much better than other alternatives when
>testing crafty...

"DarkThought" surely likes to attack but in this case Bxe7 seems to be
too unclear at shallow depths ...

=Ernst=



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