Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:50:31 07/23/01
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On July 22, 2001 at 09:02:52, Sune Larsson wrote: >On July 22, 2001 at 00:18:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 21, 2001 at 21:56:16, Sune Larsson wrote: >> >>> >>> 6k1/6pp/3n4/1n1p1P2/p1pP1NP1/PpP1K3/1B5P/8 b - - 0 1 >>> >>> Euwe - Averbakh, Zuerich 1953 >>> >>> >>> In this position white has just played 36.Nh5-f4, casting eyes on >>> the squares d5 and e6. Averbakh, just like a Spanish matador, went >>> for the swift kill, and just 4 moves later Euwe resigned. It happened: >>> >>> 36.-Nxa3! (clears the road for the pawns) 37.Bxa3 Nb5 38.Bc1 Nxc3 >>> 39.Ne2 Nb1! and white resigned 0-1 >>> >>> >>> It looks like Deep Fritz has some trouble with this position. >>> DF wants to protect the pawn on d5 with 36.-Nc7, tried it so far >>> as ply20 and 10 min on a PIII 800. >>> >>> >>> Test: The mission is clear and the direct winning line above. >>> >>> Sune >> >> >>This is easy with the right knowledge: > > > Yes, and this position causes severe problems for Hiarcs732, Nimzo732/8, > Fritz532, Fritz6 and Deep Fritz. They all want 36.-Nc7. > > Solved instantly by Tiger, Junior (even J5), Shredder (even S3) > and CM (though some newly created personalities might need more time). > Also Yace finds the correct continuation after less than 1 minute. > > Appearantly this knowledge is missing in F6/DF. For the latter I aborted > the analyse after 10 min, though. > > Sune > > > This is just a weakness you have exposed in Fritz. It has many. It is not a weakness in Crafty. But it also has many _other_ weaknesses as well. The point here has to be that if it takes Fritz 3+ minutes to find this, then it would not try to reach this position deep in the search because it wouldn't know it is winning (nor would it try to avoid it because it sees it is losing). IE if you back up 1/2 move and have fritz search, it probably won't be able to see the tactics then, and without the positional judgement to help it under- stand what is going on, it might make the same move played in the game, allowing the opponent to win simply. Sometimes speed can replace knowledge. Sometimes not. This is a case of the latter. There are also plenty cases of the former...
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