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Subject: Re: Fegatello test (or trap?)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:27:41 12/11/03

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On December 11, 2003 at 08:29:15, Claude Le Page wrote:

>I submitted to some engines a line that is known since 400 years:
>1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4 Ng5 d5 5 exd5
>I was surprised to see that most of them answer 5...Nxd5 whereas it is known
>since Polerio that this move is bad after 6 Nxf7 or  d4 exd4 7 O-O
>of the CB native engines , only shredder7 , junior7 ,and junior8 pass the
>test (they play Na5 , Nd4 or b5 that are the "regular" answers ),and that a
>"modern" engine as Hiarcs9 behaves like the obsolete ones
>if these engines (out of book!) behave like this , what confidence can one have
>in analyses by such engines ?
>Friendly Yours
>Claude Le Page


Nxf7 does not win for white.  THis is called "the fried liver attack".  It
is fun to play, but it loses.  From someone who used to play it all the
time, and studied various lines with Cray Blitz off and on for years.





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