Author: Peter Berger
Date: 16:18:15 05/01/02
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On May 01, 2002 at 10:51:41, Uri Blass wrote: >I do not think that the word sacrifice is correct here. > >4 pawns is considered to be more than a piece so the player that sacrificed was >yace but it seemed that yace was outsearched because yace evaluats the position >at move 26 also as better for hiarcs. > >There are 2 possibilities: > >1)Yace was lucky to be outsearched and got a winning position that it did not >understand. > >2)Hiarcs blundered some moves after getting a big advantage by winning 4 pawns >for a piece. > As both engines agreed for some time on evaluation 1.) is somehow closer to the truth . I definitely disagree with your assessment about piece value though. In middlegame ceteris paribus I'd take the piece over the pawns any time. Peter
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