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Subject: Re: Junior 7 Plays Anand's Novelty in Morozevich, Anand. 11.....Be7!!

Author: Christian Kongsted

Date: 07:05:32 07/13/01

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On July 12, 2001 at 22:33:51, odell hall wrote:

>Who says computers have the positional understanding of a 2100??? In the game
>Junior 7 finds the Novelty played by Anand 11...Be7!! at  about 1 min at depth
>15 on my Thunderbird 1000, previous moves which has been played in this position
>are 11...nf6, bb7, h6.  I tested a few other programs, (fritz, gambit tiger)
>they were unable to find the move.  I am not 100% sure it is the best, but if
>Anand plays it, there has to definitely be something to it. Listening to the
>commentary I notice no one expected this move. How stupid can computers be to
>find a purely positional move that annand plays???
>
>
>Morozevich,A - Anand,V
>r1b1k2r/2qp1ppp/p3pn2/1p2n3/1b1BP3/1NN2P2/PPPQ2PP/2KR1B1R b kq - 0 1
>



The explanation may be tactical. White can play Kb1 threatening Nxb5 and
therefore blacks has to do something about his B sooner or later...



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