Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 04:16:54 11/17/03
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One of my explanations is that the Fritz programmers wanted to avoid *Kasparov* getting closed-French style pawn chains with d4/e5 , or mirrored, d5/e4 for black. Because this offers good king-attacking possibilities for a human. I imagine they therefore increased the bonus for such a pawn formation, but failed to make the bonus assymetrical, which would explain why Fritz over-compensated for the lost pawn. Honestly I am pretty sure that Crafty would do better against Kasparov, or Phallanx, or Chess System Tal ... Georg On November 17, 2003 at 04:57:16, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >Is it so difficult to tell the program that a red alert should be turned on when >a pawn chain blockade is put on by the GM ? >I mean this is one of the tricks used more often by GM to fool comps, in fact >Fritz was not happy to move pawn in front of his king also if this was needed to >equalize at least. >I remember also the Alterman Wall that uses a classical pawn blockade, see for >reference : http://www.balterman.freeservers.com/altermanwall.html > >Thank you, >w.b.r. >Otello
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