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Subject: can other programs find this?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 14:11:05 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!

as the game goes, you can't really call Rxc4 an exchange sacrifice :-)
black gets a pawn for the exchange, plus the passer on b2.

this is a good test position - Rxc4 looks like the best move for black, and to
test whether omid is right, please give it a try:

[D] r1r5/3nbpk1/4qnp1/4p1Bp/1pN1P3/1PP2Q2/4N1PP/3R1R1K b - - 0 26

the game continued ...Rxc4 27. bc4 b3 28. h3 (28. Nc1?! Qxc4! 29. Rxd7? Nxd7 30.
Bxe7 b2 -+) b2 29. Ng3 Qxc4 30. Rb1 Rb8, and now, my fritz 7 in chessbase says
+0.56  for white, but i think that is rather materialistic. i like black's
position here.

which other program would play 26...Rxc4!  ?

aloha
  martin



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