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Subject: Re: How many Programs will keep the Knight by playing 1Nd4!

Author: Christophe Drieu

Date: 08:30:16 04/19/03

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On April 19, 2003 at 09:26:40, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>A knight is usually preferable to a bishop with pawns on one side of the board,
>because a Knight can attack any pawn and can chase the king from any square.
>Notice that the ability to go to any color is more important than the long range
>power of the bishop.
>
>[D]8/8/3k4/3p2n1/b3p1p1/1N2PpP1/2BK1P2/8 w - - 0 1
>
>Analysis by Fritz 8:
>
>1.Nd4 Bxc2 2.Nxc2 Nf7 3.Ke1 Ne5 4.Kf1 Nd3 5.Kg1 Ke5 6.Nd4 Kf6 7.Kf1 Ke7 8.Kg1
>  -+  (-1.62)   Depth: 7/15   00:00:00
>  -+  (-1.62)   Depth: 18/32   00:00:03  2140kN
>
>(Pichard, MyTown 19.04.2003)

Tiger 15 and Deep Sjeng find Nd4 too.



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