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Subject: Re: Chess Genius 7 sees Qd3 almost instantly...

Author: Janos Keinrath

Date: 23:41:45 10/03/02

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On October 03, 2002 at 14:33:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 03, 2002 at 01:58:09, Janos Keinrath wrote:
>
>>On October 03, 2002 at 00:53:47, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>It's great.
>>I tried with Junior and Crafty, but neither want to play 1.Qd3.
>
>
>Qd3 isn't the only way to win.  b4 is more than good enough and is what
>Crafty likes...
>
>This was the first move I considered as a human, followed by Qd3 to force
>the trade of queens.  Either should be enough.  I posed this to an IM and he
>suggested b4 himself.  When I mentioned Qd3 he aaid "that's ok too but it
>causes an unnecessary pawn weakness.
>

Yes, after the queen exchange white has pawn weakness (after a4 b pawn can't
move). But white is 2 pawns ahead, black hasn't ANY chance to fight
(no pawn breakthrough possibility, the black king can't get white's territory)
just wait the end. So for me this way is the easier to win.

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>
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>>>On October 03, 2002 at 00:20:43, Janos Keinrath wrote:
>>>
>>>>[D]8/8/6kp/p2p2p1/4q3/P1Q4P/1PP2PP1/6K1 w - -
>>>>
>>>>For me the easiest win is 1.Qd3 Qxd3 2.cxd3 a4 3.d4 Kf5 4.f3
>>>>(won pawn endgame, 2 pawns ahead), but my program doesn't see this.
>>>>
>>>>What plays your program?
>>>>
>>>>Janos



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