Author: Will Singleton
Date: 09:00:09 02/19/03
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On February 19, 2003 at 10:20:25, martin fierz wrote: >On February 19, 2003 at 09:27:01, Steffen Jakob wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>Brutus gave a pawn in the first round as black against Yace: >> >>[D]2rq1rk1/3nbppp/p2p4/n2Pp3/Pp2P3/4B2P/1PBNQPP1/R1R3K1 b - - 0 20 >> >>Here he played 20... Bg5. The current position is >> >>[D]3q1rk1/3n1ppp/Q2p4/n1rPp3/Pp2P3/4P2P/1PBN2P1/R1R3K1 w - - 0 23 >> >>Looks interesting. > >looks good for black to me! ...Bg5 gets rid of the bad bishop, and white is >stuck with his - in addition, black gets control of the c-file and white a >doubled pawn. this should easily be worth the measly pawn :-) >if brutus wins this i'd say ...Bg5 is a good test move. if not, disregard my >post ;-) > >cheers > martin I tried a few programs on this, the two alternatives Nc5 and Bg5 score about the same. Ruffian and Tao like Nc5, while Comet, Yace and Amateur will play Bg5. I guess it depends mainly on the open file and doubled pawn scoring. It could be that the file isn't so important, since white can trade off the rooks. Will
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