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Subject: Re: Eduard - Shredder 5, Tourn. Level: mate in 17 moves!!

Author: Roland Pfister

Date: 00:12:36 12/13/00

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On December 13, 2000 at 02:17:16, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 13, 2000 at 01:33:25, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>Oh not again!! This trojanishe Esel (g5 sacrifice).
>>
>>Jouni
>
>I think that avoiding hxg5 is a good test position for chess programs.
>
>I am surprised that shredder falled into this trap in tournament time control
>because I know that one of the things that was improved in shredder5 relatively
>to shredder4 is tactics.
>
>I believe that other chess programs may do better.
>
>Junior6 probably can avoid hxg5 on the same hardware at tournament time
>control(I say probably because I have not Junior6 and I only checked that
>Junior5.9 can see 0.00 evaluation for hxg5 at depth 17 and later changes its
>mind to dxc4)
>
>Uri

Even better would be to avoid 6...h6. Why play it if you cannot play 7...hxg5?

Roland



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