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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:45:54 12/13/00

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On December 13, 2000 at 03:12:36, Roland Pfister wrote:

>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


I would agree.  Too many programs reward playing h3/h6 with some sort of
"make luft" scoring bonus.  Rather than "luft" they are often making a
"target" instead.



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