Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:21:17 09/17/01
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On September 17, 2001 at 03:45:14, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >DB didn't play a superb move here that is the bottom line. Some idiot >who can't play chess looked at the game and concluded that f3 is a superb >move because after a while several programs with bad king safety also >get it at the end. > >Ferret comes very far for f3 Bh5 because it sees it tactical very far. And ferret found that f3 was the _best_ move in this position, after a huge search... > >Nimzo and genius have a too weak endgame + king safety (preprocessor >problem here) to see that after f3 either e3 or Bh5 is very bad for >white and therefore play it. > >My assumption is that Deep Blue didn't saw it tactical and went for the >f3 e3 endgame and evaluated this just like nimzo does: not so bad for >white initially. Only -1.xx or so. Of course later in the game that >went down when kasparov blindfolded won the endgame with a piece more. Why make any "assumptions"? They played the move because it looked tacticall better. Or because it looked positionally better. But nonetheless, they played the move...
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