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Subject: Re: example for my disappointment of Hiarcs8

Author: John Merlino

Date: 19:06:02 05/12/02

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On May 12, 2002 at 16:14:40, Thomas Lagershausen wrote:

>You can reproduce this moves quite easyly with hiarcs 7.This is the
>disappointment by hiarcs 8,there is nothing realy new.My disappointment is not
>based on the results in enginematches,it is based on the stagnation of the
>development of chessfeeling.
>
>[D]1r4k1/2qn1pbp/b2p1np1/p1pPp3/PrP1P3/3B1NNP/2QB1PP1/R1R3K1 w - - not 26.Bxb4 ?
>because of cxb4 and Nc5 followed by Nf6-d7-b6 and Ba6-c8-d7 with connected
>freepawns for black after the fall of the a-pawn.
>
>I was very disappointed to see with which high score for white Hiarcs 8 took the
>rook.in the game tiger-ferret (WCC 2001 Maastrich)Tiger had played 26.Ra2! and
>never took the rook and won the game without any problems.
>
>TL

Interesting position. Chessmaster 9000 (PIII-733) also never considers Bxb4, nor
does it like Ra2. Instead it prefers Bc3 or Qd1 (depending on the time control):

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/4	0.81	3940		1.Bc3 Bh6 2.Bxb4 Bxc1 3.Bxa5 Qxa5
					4.Rxc1
0:00	2/5	0.41	10441		1.Bc3 Bh6 2.Rcb1 Rxb1+ 3.Rxb1 Rxb1+
					4.Qxb1 Ne8
0:00	2/6	0.43	23711		1.Bc3 Bh6 2.Rd1 R4b7 3.Ra3 Ne8
0:02	3/7	0.41	104425		1.Bc3 Bh6 2.Rcb1 Rxb1+ 3.Rxb1 Rxb1+
					4.Qxb1 Qb6 5.Qc2 Ne8
0:03	3/8	0.46	223143		1.Bc3 Bh6 2.Nd2 R4b7 3.Be2 Ne8
					4.Bg4 Nef6
0:12	4/9	0.44	806483		1.Bc3 Bh6 2.Nd2 R4b7 3.Be2 Ne8
					4.Rd1 Qd8 5.Bg4
0:33	4/10	0.50	2263301		1.Bc3 Bh6 2.Nd2 R4b7 3.Be2 Bf4
					4.Rd1 h5 5.Ra2 Nh7
1:07	4/10	0.62	4372950		1.Qd1 Rb3 2.Be2 h5 3.Qe1 Qa7 4.Bxa5
					Bh6 5.Rc2 Rb2 6.Rxb2 Rxb2
3:04	5/11	0.46	12876706	1.Qd1 Rb3 2.Be2 h5 3.Rcb1 Rxb1
					4.Rxb1 Rxb1 5.Qxb1 Qa7 6.Qb3 Nb6
					7.Bd3
4:24	5/11	0.52	18464065	1.Bc3 Bh6 2.Nd2 Rc8 3.Be2 Bf4 4.Bxb4
					cxb4 5.Rd1 Nb6 6.c5 Bxe2 7.Nxe2
					Bxd2 8.Rxd2 Qxc5

jm



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