Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:14:04 11/06/02
Go up one level in this thread
On November 06, 2002 at 00:12:45, Dan Andersson wrote: >>Rc8 might be good enough to draw. I'm not so sure being a pawn down with an >>active rook is that great if your opponent has a rook that is causing problems >>as well. I would rather try to find something _earlier_ in the game... >Sure, but now I think you are being stupid. The passive defence seems futile. > >MvH Dan Andersson And Rc8 also looks pretty futile from a computer's point of view. Which was the original point... It is not going to be easy to toss a pawn just to get a rook on a file that might (or might not) be useful. That is going to require a lot of calculation to see something good happening first, if it actually does...
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.