Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 14:00:53 07/23/98
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On July 23, 1998 at 12:58:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >The major move that Crafty didn't like was the Qh5+ move which traded the knight >on h8 for black's remaining two pawns. Crafty has specific eval code that says >if it is down a piece, even with three pawns for it, it isn't going to be happy >unless all the pieces are gone except for that one extra piece for the opponent. Cstal would not have exchanged material because it thought white has an attack. And when you attack, you should better not trade pieces/queens. So cstal does not want to play Qh5+. But why does genius5 not like Qh5+ and plays also g3 ? >I thought that Rebel would win this after it had such a wall of pawns left on >the kingside, but it never seemed to try to get them moving, and a wall of pawns >on the 2nd/3rd ranks is not nearly so impressive as that same wall of pawns on >the 5th-6th... Rob told us that Ed does not like the position after Qh5+. So ed maybe knew what will happen now. >Interesting decision by Anand to start that Bd6 sequence. He has learned this in game7. There he found out that rebel has problems in playing with unbalanced material and connected passed pawns...
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