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Subject: Re: Another "knowledge" based sacrifice by Junior!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:38:25 07/09/02

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On July 09, 2002 at 13:26:16, Omid David wrote:

>To the best of my knowledge Junior is the only program presently, which can
>sacrifice pieces based on chess knowledge, rather than pure tactical
>considerations. See its game today against Brutus: the exchange sacrifice by
>26... Rxc4!

There are other programs that can sacrifice pieces for positional reasons.
The sacrifices may be sometimes correct and sometimes not correct.

Movei can also sacrifice for positional reasons but in most of the cases it is
not more than a pawn.

Uri



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