Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:24:46 04/04/03
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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 I'm always a bit suspicious of these kinds of positions. IE do we _know_ that f6 wins? Or did it just win in that game? There's a difference.
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