Author: emerson tan
Date: 07:15:44 09/15/03
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In all the games, Hiarcs played 8 - fxe6 On September 15, 2003 at 09:58:47, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >On September 15, 2003 at 09:11:25, emerson tan wrote: > >>I played a 24 game match between Shredder 6.02 and Hiarcs 7.32 with the >>following opening. >> >>1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Ng5 Ngf6 6.Bd3 e6 7.N1f3 h6 8.Nxe6 >> > >What was the answer to 8.Nxe6. I'm not up to date on theorie here but back then >Kasparov's 8...Qe7 was regarded as bad, with 8...fxe6 9.Bg6 Ke7 O-O Qc7 the line >went in advance for black. (Controlled with eco from 94, eg. monogram B17). > >Odd Gunnar > > >>Time control was 40/4hrs + 20/2hrs + 2hrs to finish on a 1.8 Ghz processor. >> >>Shredder played all the white games and Hiracs all the black games. The score >>went 13-11 in Hiarcs favor. Only a couple of games were drawn. >> >>I choose Shredder 6.02 to have white because it likes whites position and >>without an opening book, it will play the 8.Nxe6 sacrifice. Also, Shredder has a >>positional learning. I choose Hiarcs for black solely because of its positional >>learning. Positional learning is important in this one opening match since it >>will be able to learn and improve its next play based on the same opening. >> >>Maybe 8.Nxe6 is not a forced win for white. Maybe Kasparov can study it and use >>it in some high profile match against computers since most of the programmers >>might put it in their books thinking its a forced win for white.
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