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Subject: Re: Is Bd6 correct ? What programs plays it ?

Author: Benny Antonsson

Date: 19:33:14 01/15/02

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On January 15, 2002 at 22:10:11, John Merlino wrote:

>On January 15, 2002 at 21:09:29, Benny Antonsson wrote:
>
>>I was confused when I saw Alarm 0.89 play Bd6 in this position:
>>[D]r1bqk1nr/pppp1p1p/2n3p1/1B6/1b1NP3/2P5/PP3PPP/RNBQK2R b KQkq - 0 1
>>It seemes to cramp the black position? Is Be3 the problem after Bc5? Is Be7
>>playable? What other programs play Bd6?
>
>Am I correct in thinking that the last two moves were:
>
>5...Bb4
>6.c3
>
>If this is the case, then the problem comes more from the fact that 5...Bb4 was
>played, rather than 5...Bg7. Why else would g6 have been played?
>
>If you take back those two (theoretical) moves from the above position, there
>are many games I have found that have that position in them, and in every game
>Bg7 was played.
>
>jm

Yes... you are right... here is the start of the game:
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4

Here I checked Alarms openingbook:

 Size of openingbook: 305.463 positions
 Number of lines in this position: 1
 ECO: [C60 Ruy Lopez: fianchetto (Smyslov/Barnes) defence]

 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Move   n       %       Win     Draw    Loss    White   Black   TPR     Prob
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Bg7    2       25.00%  0       1       1       2000    2000    1833    0.00%

The first problem is that there were to few games played with this position in
the pgn-file I used to create the openging book... and the second problem is why
Alarm isn't playing the obvious Bg7 when it starts thinking... neither Crafty or
ChessMaster does, and I assume these programs also have knowledge about the
fianchettoed bishop ?



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