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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