Author: Robin Smith
Date: 21:38:50 04/03/03
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On April 03, 2003 at 13:55:16, Peter Berger wrote: >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 15... f5?? is very bad, letting white's bishop back in the game. 15...f6 frees the black bishop to move around and will probably need to played sooner or later, but is not essential imediately. Robin
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