Author: Art Basham
Date: 08:30:29 07/31/02
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My program says....Qc1, and white is winning....+1.72 What move should we be looking for? =============================== On July 31, 2002 at 11:20:10, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >[D]r7/1p2ppkp/6p1/p2n4/Pn6/1r1P1P2/1P1Q2PP/1K1R3R w - - 0 21 > >Draw agreed. > >What does your program play in this situation? > >J.H. Donner, who died in 1988, was an avid opponent of the "chess playing >calculator". They can't play chess, was his opinion. The same goes for women, he >stated, because they "lack intuition". Inclined to react - don't feel obliged, >he won't hear you anymore, and it is said that those not insulted by Donner >didn't exist. So much for that. > >Recently a new Dutch edition of The King (De Koning - schaakstukken) - a >collection of his columns in various Dutch magazines was published, and in one >of the pieces from 1975 he tells the story about the above position. > >It's from a game between Browne and Genna Sosonko on Hoogovens 1975, and he >agreed with Browne that the draw (a white queen against two black knights) tends >to ridicule. Are those two knights really worth a queen? > >He then starts analyzing, and concludes it's a draw indeed. > >However, some months later he visits the Noordoostpolder, somewhere in the >Netherlands (I'll be heading there tomorrow, that's why the piece caught my >eye:)) and on a tournament there, in Emmeloord, some anonymous chess player came >to Donner and asked him "what would black do if white would have played 21.Qc1?" > >Donner realized that this must be the solution and analyzes again; then he >wonders if Fischer would have found the move, and is pretty sure Petrosjan would >have been able to. > >Given his disdain for "chess playing calculators" it's maybe interesting what >todays versions of them produce as answer. I put the position in Fritz 7 and >watched the outcome. >Maybe Donner was also wrong about women and chess. > >J.
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