Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:05:58 01/21/04
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On January 20, 2004 at 20:06:43, Sune Fischer wrote: >On January 20, 2004 at 14:56:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>>Particularly big sacrifices can take a while for engines to see, they fail high >>>10 times faster if you just execute the move so nullmove and other pruning >>>devices gets a better root window to work with. >> >>I rarely use that approach, as it doesn't prove the sacrifice was the best >>move at the root position if you force the game a few moves down... > >This is from a game I played today. >You can sit and wait for Crafty to "prove" g5!, good luck :) I know it is a problem. But I have seen many "proofs" of such moves that omit a really oddball reply by the opponent, only proving that the variation seen by the poster is correct beyond that point, but the the original move. > >[D]1r3r1k/pppb2pp/2n2q2/4pp2/8/2PP4/PPQNBPPP/R4R1K b - - 0 1 > >-S.
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