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Subject: Re: Not so fast

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 19:31:16 09/17/01

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On September 17, 2001 at 17:39:17, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On September 17, 2001 at 13:06:09, Bruce Moreland 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.
>>
>>My program switched to f3 eventually.  That was the point of the post that I
>>made yesterday, after running the position for a long time, as *requested* by
>>you.
>>
>>So now you tell me that my program has bad king safety?
>
>No. your programs score for f3 and the other move was very similar.
>
>What you see is that f3 is nearly -5.0, now for gxf4 you also get
>the same.
>
>I wanted the -5.0 for f3 confirmed. That's all i needed, because
>how easily it technical is i already know myself.
>
>If you are also not happy with gxf4, which leads to a very complex position,
>then that's not interesting (unless it's like -mate in 10 or so).
>
>>I'm assuming that I'm misunderstanding something here, because I don't think you
>>would be saying this.  I would venture a guess that if you were to check out
>>everyone's king safety, Ferret's would be pretty good.
>
>What i wanted to show and i think i'm succeeding here is that f3 is
>DEFINITELY not the way to go!

Well no, I don't think you are succeeding.




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