Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 16:34:35 05/19/02
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On May 19, 2002 at 19:19:08, Peter Kappler wrote: >On May 19, 2002 at 18:15:58, Will Singleton wrote: > >> >>It seems that in the following position (from round 4 of the games below), >>lambchop avoids the draw (out of book?) by 10.Qxf3, going down more than a pawn. >> >>Seems like a rather large contempt factor, or am I missing something? Of >>course, chop came back to win due to brilliant endgame play (or lousy opponent >>play, take your pick), so maybe it knew what it was doing. >> >>[D]r2qkb1r/pp2pppp/2n1b3/3P2B1/2P5/5p2/PP3PPP/R2QKB1R w KQkq - 0 10 >> > >I doubt that a contempt factor was at work here. My guess is that Chop simply >liked the position after 14...Kd7. Perhaps it thought Black's lack of >development and homeless king compensated for the material deficit. That sounds like a plausible explanation, although I haven't looked into it as yet. Chop doesn't have a contempt factor, its draw score is always set to zero. But its somewhat optimistic view of the world effectively gives it a contempt factor :-) > >-Peter
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