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Subject: Re: Pharaon - Aristarch, comments & examples

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:56:52 08/11/02

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On August 11, 2002 at 19:43:22, Mike S. wrote:

>On August 11, 2002 at 19:24:25, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On August 11, 2002 at 18:59:28, Telmo Escobar wrote:
>>
>>>On August 11, 2002 at 15:00:59, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>(...)
>>>>After 19.Rxc6 Bxa5 20.Rcd6 is not winning because of Rd8 when
>>>>Rd7 is impossible so this example only demonstrates pharoan's wealnesses.
>
>>> If 19.Rxc6 Bxa5 20.Rcd6 Rd8 21.e5 I think White has a clear positional
>>>advantage
>
>>I think that white has no advantage.
>>after 21.e5 I play Rxd6 and black has a small advantage based
>>on Deep Fritz.
>
>When I analysed 20...Rd8 a bit, it seemed to me that white should exchange on d8
>before playing e5: 19.Rxc6 Bxa5 20.Rcd6 Rd8 21.Rxd8+ Bxd8 22.e5
>
>Maybe that's better - but complicated (I'm not sure, didn't analyse long
>enough). I remember Fritz 7 wanted to reply Bc7, planning to exchange b7 for e5
>indirectly...
>
>Btw. the main reason why I "instinctively" chose Rxc6 as an example, is because
>it is what I call an entertaining move (surprising and difficult enough, and
>most probably correct), but I did not at all "dig into the truth of the
>position". :o)

Rxc6 is not hard for computers and the proof is that
movei needs less than 2 seconds to find it on p850 and the same
is for Deep Fritz,Junior7 and Crafty.

Here is the analysis of movei at depth 7

7 -35 94 125600 a5b4 d8g5 b4d2 g5d2 d1d2 a8d8 d2d8 e8d8 g1g2
7 -34 181 247556 c1c6
7 -5 192 269564 c1c6 d8a5 e4e5 a8d8 c6d6 d8d6 e5d6 b7b6 f3c6 e8d8
7 -5 192 272111 c1c6 d8a5 e4e5 a8d8 c6d6 d8d6 e5d6 b7b6 f3c6 e8d8

Uri



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