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Subject: Re: Deep Sjeng - Ruffian really draw?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 04:14:59 10/20/03

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On October 20, 2003 at 06:55:17, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On October 20, 2003 at 06:37:50, Johan Havegheer wrote:
>
>>On October 20, 2003 at 04:50:45, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>After black's 37 move:
>>>
>>>[D]8/p4q1p/Qp1k4/8/8/1p2R3/2b2PPP/6K1 w - -
>>>
>>>Is this draw? Isn't here any plan for white to win? Or may be allowing black
>>>bishop to c2 earlier was mistake?
>>
>>As far as i know, yes. I don't have the games and the scores here at the office
>>but Ruffian score was 0.00 at plydepth 16.
>
>Not in this position. IIRC Ruffian was at -2.22 or so here.
>
>The extra quality looks very nice but black's position seems very hard
>to crack. I've not found any real improvements for white yet, though
>I did change a few things in Deep Sjeng's new kingsafety.
>
>--
>GCP

this certainly doesn't look like -2.22 to me. white has the exchange, that's
true, but e.g. an exchange of queens probably wins for black thanks to the
monster pawn on b3. i'm not at all surprised that white does not win this...
he'd have to mate black, and with only two pieces left that's not so easy!

cheers
  martin



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