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

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 10:55:16 04/03/03

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On April 03, 2003 at 13:07:53, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>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.

I can understand to some extent why f5 could be bad, but I don't get what is so
great about ..f6. It would be nice if you could post the annotations, too, or
maybe add some explanation.

Thanks,
Peter



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