Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:46:00 09/27/01
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On September 27, 2001 at 17:07:23, Andy Serpa wrote: >I am intrigued by this position from an old book: > >[D]rnb2r1k/pp1p2pp/2p1P3/2q1p3/2B3Q1/2N4P/PPP3P1/R1B4K w - - 0 1 > > >In the book, White saves himself with the following manoeuvre: > >1. b4 Qxb4 2. Rb1 Qxc3 3. Bh6 gxh6 4. e7 Re8 5. Rf1 >and white mates in a few moves. > > >I'm curious what a fast computer comes up with in this position... Crafty likes Be3 for reasonable depths. Score is near 0.00 (slightly favors black but not by a lot). It isn't clear to me that the book is right about b4. IE suppose black doesn't play quite so greedily and get the queen stuck out of the action at c3?
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