Author: Francois Bertin
Date: 18:23:43 09/08/98
6r1/p2Pbk2/P4p2/1B3P2/2K1p1p1/8/8/3R4 b - -
This position happened in a correspondence game I played recently.
I played Rg5, letting White promote to queen, and then sacrificed my bishop
on it, after which White took with rook. I was hoping that my two passed
pawns on the kingside would give me good chances. That was quite
speculative, to say the least and I had to concede victory to my
opponent about 15 moves later.
However, when I put this position in Rebel 9, I was surprised to see
that the program liked the move and even gave a small advantage to Black!?
I run Rebel on a P-90 with only 8 Mg of memory, so I would like to
know if it would stick to the sacrifice and its evaluation when running
on a more powerful system with much more memory for hash tables. And what
would other programs like Fritz, Hiarc and al. play?
Also, since this is an endgame position, what would a program using
tablebases, like Crafty or Ferret, say?
Thanks for the input,
François Bertin
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