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Subject: Re: Hypermodern strategy

Author: Andreas Stabel

Date: 02:35:07 03/14/01

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On March 14, 2001 at 05:17:37, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 14, 2001 at 05:03:21, Eelco de Groot wrote:
>
>>On March 14, 2001 at 04:48:47, Graham Laight wrote:
>>
>>>Which computer is this?
>>>
>>>On March 14, 2001 at 04:15:34, Eelco de Groot wrote:
>>>
>>>>Computers these days..I don't understand them anymore. Computer with Black has
>>>>played against me, Blitzlevel,
>>>>
>>>>1.h4 d5 2.d4 Bg4 3.f3 Bf5 4.g4 Bc8 * and thinks with Black it is fine at +0.20.
>>>>
>>>>Maybe it is right?!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>[D]rnbqkbnr/ppp1pppp/8/3p4/3P2PP/5P2/PPP1P3/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
>>
>>It is Gambit Tiger 1.0, Graham. But it would have to be either at extreme Blitz
>>or at 5 seconds fixed per move to play this, else it chooses 2. ..e6. I must
>>confess these Bishop moves were worrying me quite a bit last night but 2. ..Bg4
>>can't be all bad because even Century 3.0 plays it!
>
>It proves nothing because Rebel Century3 may be wrong and I do not understand
>the "even Century3" because there is no evidence that century3 is better than
>other programs.
>
>Uri

Couldn't this be caused by aggressive king safety evaluation. The computers
think they have weakened white's king safety by theese moves, so they think
they are fine.

Andreas



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