Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:30:04 07/08/02
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On July 08, 2002 at 18:17:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 08, 2002 at 17:58:29, Omid David wrote: > >>On July 08, 2002 at 17:56:05, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On July 08, 2002 at 17:44:25, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>On July 08, 2002 at 17:32:25, Omid David wrote: >>>> >>>>>On July 08, 2002 at 17:23:14, Uri Blass wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On July 08, 2002 at 16:59:55, Omid David wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>On July 08, 2002 at 16:53:09, Uri Blass wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>On July 08, 2002 at 16:18:31, Omid David wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>It seems to me that Junior lost the game to Shredder due to an opening book >>>>>>>>>error, since I doubt if Junior would wander its king on d2 deliberatly... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>I do not think that Junior lost because of book error. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>I know that Junior evaluates itself as better after the opening and I believe >>>>>>>>that Junior has enough compensation in mobility of pieces for the fact that the >>>>>>>>king went to d2. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>I believe that Junior lost against shredder because of mistakes many moves after >>>>>>>>it left book. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Uri >>>>>>> >>>>>>>But what made it prefer d2 to d1? >>>>>> >>>>>>After Kd1 Bc5 the move Nf2+ is a threat. >>>>>>After Kd2 Bc5 Nf2 is not a problem. >>>>> >>>>>After Kd1 Bc5 white can play Rf1 followed by h3 >>>> >>>>You are right >>>> >>>>Movei also does not understand the problem with Kd1 >>>> >>>>it wants to play Kd1 at depth 12 with evaluation of 0.50 for white. >>>> >>>>Maybe Junior wanted to protect the knight at c3 with the king because >>>>the main line of Movei is Kd1 Bd4 Rf1 Bxc3 bxc3 and 2 pawns at c2 and c3 are not >>>>good for white pawn structure but I still think that a king at c3 is a bigger >>>>problem. >>>> >>>>12 50 170379 252916839 e1d1 f2d4 h1f1 d4c3 b2c3 f8e8 h2h3 g4f6 c1e3 c8d7 e2b2 >>>>d7a4 d1e1 b7b6 >>>>12 50 172900 256523400 e1d1 f2d4 h1f1 d4c3 b2c3 f8e8 h2h3 g4f6 c1e3 c8d7 e2b2 >>>>d7a4 d1e1 b7b6 >>>> >>>>Uri >>> >>>Note that if white is afraid about pawn structure then it can choose Kd1 Bd4 Kc2 >>>Bxc3 Kxc3 based on movei's analysis >>> >>>13 40 288903 425006195 e1d1 f2d4 d1c2 d4c3 c2c3 d8e7 c3c2 g4f6 c1d2 b8a6 d2c3 >>>c8g4 c3e5 e7e5 f3e5 g4e2 d3e2 f6e4 >>> >>>Uri >> >>Don't waste you time with computer analysis, in such positions humans can play >>far better than computers ;-) > >You are speaking to a national correspondence champion who uses computers to >analyze positions. Or is the smiley an indication that you already know that. I believe that it is not important. Only computer programs with small help from humans can win the correspondence championship today. I tried to think about a possible reason for computers to choose Kd2. Uri
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