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Subject: Re: Some Maastricht testpositions

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:55:14 07/17/02

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On July 16, 2002 at 02:15:11, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 15, 2002 at 18:37:56, Alexander Kure wrote:
>
>>On July 15, 2002 at 18:34:10, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On July 15, 2002 at 18:12:48, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 15, 2002 at 18:01:11, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Another question is what do you mean by a winning score.
>>>>>
>>>>>Suppose that I can see Qh5 with +0.97 score when another move has +0.56 score.
>>>>>Does it mean that Qh5 has a winning score?
>>>>
>>>>Win of a piece (possibly for a pawn), so something around +2.
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>GCP
>>>
>>>programs may see also only rook and 2 pawns for bishop and knight so the score
>>>may be only +1.
>>>
>>>Here are some computer lines:
>>>f4g6 f7g6 c2g6 h7g6 h5g6 g8h8 g6h5 h8g8 c1h6 e7f6 h5g6 g8h8 h6f8 f6e5 d4e5 d8f8
>>>
>>>f4g6 f7g6 c2g6 h7g6 h5g6 g8h8 g6h5 h8g8 c1h6 e7f6 h5g6 g8h8 h6f8 f6e5 g6h5 h8g8
>>>d4e5 d8f8 h5g4 g8h7
>>>
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>The double piece sac is quite spectacular, but the winning continuation is the
>>very strong intermediate move Re1!! (instead of Qh5).
>>
>>Greetings
>>Alex
>
>I suspect that finding Re1 may be even bigger problem than finding Qh5

I'm not convinced it's the only way to win.

--
GCP



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