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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