Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 11:34:20 11/17/03
I tested several of my programs including 12 frebies and none can select the right plan. Dragon 4.5 and little goliath select 14...Ne8 but they don't follow with 15...f5! PS: The only program that select 14...Bd6 like X3D Fritz is Quark 205 beta :-) http://www.chessbase.com/games/2003/kasparovx3dfritzgame3.htm [D]r1bq1rk1/1p1nbppp/1Pp2n2/p1Pp4/Q2Pp3/BNN1P2P/P4PP1/R3KB1R b KQ - 0 1 14...Bd6?! This got a good laugh from the Grandmaster commentators and the audience. Only a computer! It puts its bishop right where the white pawn can capture it. If Kasparov takes the bishop he loses his queen after 15.cxd6?? Nxb6 and the white queen is trapped. Of course Kasparov isn't going to blunder his queen away, so did this curious move have any other value? Maybe so, if Black thinks its bishop is more useful on the b8-h2 diagonal, attacking the kingside. [ 14...Ne8 15.Rb1 f5 Here is the key move that X3D Fritz never wanted to play. All of Black's hopes are pinned on eventually breaking through with ..f5. 16.g3 g5 Necessary to enforce ...f4, but X3D Fritz has been taught not to move the pawns in front of its king. Now a double-edge battle is underway and White will have to watch out for Black's breakthrough on the kingside. In the game, Kasparov never had to worry about this at all since X3D Fritz never touched its f-pawn. Jorge
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