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Subject: Re: More positional than tactical?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 15:36:00 07/11/01

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On July 11, 2001 at 17:11:42, Peter McKenzie wrote:

>Its seems that this position isn't 100% tactics.  Most programs choose Nxd5 with
>only a small positive score, so they haven't seen a crush.  I suspect that all
>programs see that Nxd5 isn't too bad tactically, and it is just positional
>factors that cause some to choose Nxd5 and others to not choose it.
>
>btw, LambChop switches to Nxd5 after about 800sec, but score is less than 1 pawn
>advantage.
>
>Peter

Definitely, Ne4 is completely toasting black as you enter the position
with all your pieces.

Nxd5 is basically the same idea but from human viewpoint nicer.





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