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Subject: Re: What Amateur Chess Engine Plays Positional Games?

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 10:07:53 04/03/03

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On April 03, 2003 at 08:36:40, Eran wrote:

>Which chess engine, Winboard or UCI, understands positional games very well and
>is best at long time control games?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Eran

No engines understand positional chess very well. Even the commercials dont.

Many Capablanca games are good to test engines.
Here is an example from Winter-Capablanca Hastings 1919:

[D] r4rk1/ppp2p2/3b3p/2p1p1p1/4P3/3P1PBP/PPP2P2/R4RK1 b - - 0 15

White was lost after 15...f6!.
All engines I have tested like to play f5 sooner or later.
This is a mistake because white is able to draw after exf5.

• Re: What Amateur Chess Engine Plays Positional Games? Peter Berger 10:55:16 04/03/03
  • Re: What Amateur Chess Engine Plays Positional Games? Robert Hyatt 11:24:46 04/04/03
    • Re: What Amateur Chess Engine Plays Positional Games? Drexel,Michael 17:26:51 04/04/03
    • Re: What Amateur Chess Engine Plays Positional Games? Robin Smith 15:53:35 04/04/03
      • Re: What Amateur Chess Engine Plays Positional Games? Peter Berger 16:09:09 04/04/03
  • Re: What Amateur Chess Engine Plays Positional Games? Robin Smith 21:38:50 04/03/03
  • Re: What Amateur Chess Engine Plays Positional Games? Drexel,Michael 12:28:16 04/03/03

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