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Subject: Re: WM test bugs

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 00:14:20 07/03/02

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Hiarcs 8 after 9h on a celeron 800 Mhz

[d]r1k4r/1b1q1pp1/p6p/3n4/1B3Pn1/1P1B4/P1PQ3P/2KRR3 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Hiarcs 8:

1. ± (1.09): 1.Ba5 Kb8 2.c4 Nge3 3.Rxe3 Nxe3 4.Qxe3 Re8 5.Be4 Qc8 6.Qd4 Qe6
7.Qc5 Rc8 8.Rd8
2. ± (0.85): 1.c4 Nxb4 2.Qxb4 Nf6 3.Re7 Qc6 4.Rxf7 Kb8 5.Bg6 Rg8 6.Rxg7 Rxg7
7.Qf8+ Ka7 8.Qxg7 h5 9.Qe7

after 1h H8 prefere c4 but change his mind later ...

On June 27, 2002 at 04:04:07, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Several positions in WM test the solutions given aren't the
>objective best moves.
>
>For example i get impression that at position 16:
>
>
>r1k4r/1b1q1pp1/p6p/3n4/1B3Pn1/1P1B4/P1PQ3P/2KRR3 w - - bm Ba5; id "CSS WM-Test
>16) Lb4-a5 (K)";
>
>Undoubtfully Ba5 is a good move, but completely material
>winning is c2-c4 here. You get directly a rook at the 7th rank,
>swallow f7 + g7, and black is completely immobilized the rest of
>the game. Soon also Rd1-e1-e7 happens and it's a mate in XXX soon
>then.
>
>I can imagine why a human plays Ba5 here and doesn't take a risk (note
>the chessprograms want this all initially too), but let's look objective
>to the position. Not finding c4 soon means a program is a tactical joke.
>
>As a human i wouldn't find c4 so soon either. I would go for Ba5, because
>i know how much i suck in tactics.
>
>Best regards,
>Vincent



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