Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 03:20:53 02/04/04
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On February 04, 2004 at 00:35:34, Harald Faber wrote:
>You know the answer. Bxh6 is no forced win. It is speculative.
and ?!
all chess games are speculative.
NO chess program KNOWS if the moves work or not,
they all have thesis, and the opponent tries to refute it.
>This time it
>worked in the end. Maybe some other program would have defended better and draw
>or even won with black.
maybe. which move do you want to try out ?
14...Qc7 {-0.30/18} 15. Bxh6 gxh6 {-0.40/15} 16. Qxh6 Rfd8 {-0.54/16}
17.Rd3 Nh7 {0.00/17} 18.f4 Bf8 {0.01/18} 19.Rg3+ Kh8 {0.01/18} 20. Qh5 Rab8
{0.35/17} 21.f5 exf5 {0.85/16} 22.Rf1 Rd7 {0.84/19} 23.Rxf5 f6 {0.84/18}
which move do you want to change ??
All in all the clear majority of CSTal's sacs do NOT
>work...
as long as they work against champs :-)) on 40/120 :-)))
it is ok for me :-))
the program was designed to bluff.
it never tries to find out the REAL values or the REAL situation. It is
speculative. and not made for bean counters or people who really want to find
out about a position. for this, we always used a 3rd machine running genius :-))
i remember when a tournament was, we always looked on the screen of the
opponent.
there was the truth :-))
CSTal is a dreamer.
it creates plans and ideas.
in this case very obvious ideas (from the point of view of a human beeing).
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