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: > >> >>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 > > >> >>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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