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Subject: Re: Not so fast

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 10:10:55 09/17/01

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On September 17, 2001 at 11:21:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 17, 2001 at 03:45:14, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
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>>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...

Not really, it just found that gxf4 lost, too.  f3 has approximately the same
score.

bruce

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>>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.
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>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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